Three firefighters, two paramedics and two journalists were amongst these killed on a motorway in southern Turkey.
Printed On 20 Aug 2022
A passenger bus has collided with emergency groups handling an earlier motorway accident in southern Turkey, killing on the least 16 folks and injuring 22 others, officials said.
Three firefighters, two paramedics and two journalists were amongst these killed on the motorway between Gaziantep and Nizip, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu wrote in a tweet on Saturday. The many eight deaths were on the bus, he added.
“At around 10: 45 this morning, a passenger bus crashed right here,” Gaziantep Governor Davut Gul said, speaking from the scene of the accident on the motorway east of Gaziantep.
“Whereas the fire brigade, clinical groups and assorted colleagues were responding to the accident, one other bus crashed 200 metres within the benefit of. The 2d bus slid to this save of dwelling and hit the most most essential responders and the wounded folks on the ground.”
The Turkish info company Ilhas said two of its journalists were killed after pulling over to abet the victims of the preliminary accident, in which a automobile came off the motorway and slid down an embankment.
Television footage confirmed an ambulance with severe damage to its rear whereas the bus lay on its side alongside the motorway.
Turkey has a uncomfortable file of motorway safety. Some 5,362 folks were killed in traffic accidents final 300 and sixty five days, in step with the executive.