Ho! No! 16 Dead, 21 Hurt In Turkey Road Accident
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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 Gul said that the deaths and injuries were sustained “in an accident involving a bus, an emergency team and an ambulance… between Gaziantep and Nizip”.
Local media gave a higher toll than the provisional figure given earlier by the governor, reporting 16 deaths and 21 injuries.
The DHA news agency said an ambulance, a firefighting truck and a bus carrying journalists were hit by a passenger bus.
“Three firefighters, two emergency workers and two journalists figure among the dead,” the Gaziantep governor said.
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Photos on DHA showed the back of an ambulance ripped out and metal debris strewn around it.
Sixteen people died and 21 were injured in a road accident involving a bus and an ambulance in southeastern Turkey, media reported Saturday.
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