As many as 32 individuals, together with emergency staff and journalists, died when autos crashed at accident websites in southeast Turkey on Saturday.
Rescue and emergency responders work on the scene after a bus crash on the freeway in Turkey on Saturday (August 20) | Reuters
At least 32 individuals had been killed in southeast Turkey on Saturday when autos crashed into first respondents who had been attending earlier accidents, authorities stated.
Sixteen individuals together with emergency staff and journalists died when a bus crashed into an earlier accident website, regional governor Davut Gul from southeastern province of Gaziantep stated. Another 20 individuals had been wounded and acquired remedy.
“At around 10:45 this morning, a passenger bus crashed here,” Gul stated, talking from the scene of the accident on the street 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.”
Separately, a truck hit a website some 250 km (155 miles) east in Derik district of Mardin the place first respondents had been attending to a different accident, in line with footage.
Sixteen individuals died and 29 others had been injured because of the incident in Mardin, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca stated, including that eight of the wounded had been in vital situation.
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