Several people killed in Turkish province of Gaziantep as bus crashes at accident site
Sixteen people died and 21 were injured in a road accident involving a bus and an ambulance in southeastern Turkey, media reported Saturday. The governor of Gaziantep province Davut Gül said that the deaths and injuries were sustained "in an accident involving a bus, an emergency team and an ambulance... between Gaziantep and Nizip".
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- Published Date: 05:58 | 20 August 2022
- Modified Date: 01:56 | 21 August 2022
Sixteen people were killed in southeast Türkiye on Saturday when a bus crashed into emergency workers and journalists who were attending an earlier accident on a highway near the city of Gaziantep, local authorities said.
Regional governor Davut Gül said the dead included three firefighters, four emergency health workers and two drone operators from a Turkish news agency.
"At around 10:45 this morning, a passenger bus crashed here," Gül said, speaking from the scene of the accident on the road east of Gaziantep.
"While the fire brigade, medical teams and other colleagues were responding to the accident, another bus crashed 200 metres behind. The second bus slid to this site and hit the first responders and the wounded people on the ground."
Vice President Fuat Oktay said the emergency workers and journalists had "lost their lives in the line of duty".
The DHA news agency said an ambulance, a firefighting truck and a bus carrying journalists were hit by a passenger bus.
Photos on DHA showed the back of an ambulance ripped out and metal debris strewn around it.
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