At least 16 folks have been killed in Turkey when a passenger bus crashed into emergency groups dealing with an earlier highway accident, officers have stated.
Three firefighters, 4 emergency well being employees and two journalists from a Turkish information company have been amongst these killed on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip, each in Gaziantep province within the southeast of the nation, regional governor Davut Gul stated.
Speaking from the scene of the crash, Mr Gul stated: “At around 10.45 this morning, a passenger bus crashed here.
“While the fireplace brigade, medical groups and different colleagues have been responding to the accident, one other bus crashed 200 metres behind.
“The second bus slid to this site and hit the first responders and the wounded people on the ground.”
The remainder of those that died have been bus passengers, inside minister Suleyman Soylu stated.
Mr Gul stated a 22 additional folks have been injured.
The Ilhas News Agency reported two of its drone operators have been killed after pulling over to assist the victims of the preliminary crash.
The first bus had veered off the highway and gone down an embankment.
Television footage from the scene confirmed an ambulance with extreme injury and the bus overturned on its facet.
Vice president Fuat Oktay stated the emergency employees and journalists had “lost their lives in the line of duty”.
Source: information.sky.com”