A bus crashed into an accident site in Turkey. Among the dead are rescue workers and journalists who were there because of the previous accident. Over 20 people were injured.
(dpa) At least 16 people have been killed in a road accident in Turkey. Among them are firefighters, medical staff and two journalists, said the governor of the province of Gaziantep, Davut Gül, in an interview at the accident site on Saturday. They were originally there because of the report of a previous accident. An approaching bus then had an accident, rolled over and hit an ambulance and the journalists’ broadcast van. 22 other people were injured.
The two journalists worked for the state-affiliated agency IHA, according to the state broadcaster TRT. Loud sobbing could be heard in a broadcaster’s report. The agency’s cameraman, who was there to report on his colleagues’ deaths, “couldn’t hold back his tears,” TRT said.
The injured are currently being treated in hospital. Nothing was initially known about the degree of the injury.