Some of the victims had been "hogtied" with string or plastic strips before being executed.

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Eventually, a thin string of plastic will emerge from the nozzle.

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While he waits, a chain-smoking captain, Salih Yilmaz, busies himself with a plastic bottle and a piece of string, fishing for calamari to serve in his restaurant.

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