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Turkey: At least 16 dead in traffic accident

2022-08-20T11:48:10.924Z


Helpers and journalists at an accident site in Turkey have themselves become victims: A bus hit an ambulance and a TV broadcasting vehicle at the scene of the accident.


At least 16 people have died in a traffic accident in Turkey.

Among the victims are firefighters, medical staff and two journalists, said the governor of the province of Gaziantep, Davut Gül, in an interview at the scene of the accident.

The emergency services and journalists had been on site because of a previous accident.

An approaching bus then had an accident, overturned and hit an ambulance and the journalists' broadcast van.

22 other people were injured.

According to a Twitter post by the governor, the scene of the accident is between Gaziantep and Nizip in southeastern Anatolia.

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 cover the deaths of his colleagues, "couldn't hold back his tears," TRT said.

Pictures from the DHA news agency showed the rear of a partially torn open ambulance and numerous vehicle debris at the scene of the accident.

The injured were taken to hospital by helicopter and ambulance.

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Source: spiegel

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