Turkey: 16 dead and 21 injured in a traffic accident

Sixteen people were killed and 21 injured on a highway in southeastern Turkey in a crash involving an ambulance and a bus, the governor of Gaziantep province said today.

The governor had earlier spoken of 15 dead “in the traffic accident involving a bus, a rescue team and an ambulance on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip”.

According to Turkey’s DHA news agency, an ambulance, a fire engine and a vehicle carrying a group of journalists — who had gone to the scene of an accident — were hit head-on by a bus traveling on the same highway.

Four rescuers, three firefighters and two journalists from the Turkish news agency Ilhas were among the 16 dead, according to local media.

Images released by the DHA agency show the back of a partially damaged ambulance and an overturned bus with its front damaged.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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