Sixteen people were killed and 29 injured after a truck plowed into a crowd in a city in southeastern Turkey, Turkey’s health minister said on Saturday.

“Sixteen people died and another 29 were injured, eight of them seriously, in an accident caused by broken brakes of a truck that plowed into a crowd in Derik,” in Mardin province, Minister Fahrettin Koca said. Twitter.

A video released by Turkish media shows the driver losing control of the truck, hitting several cars and pedestrians as they tried to escape at full speed.

On Saturday, another accident occurred at the same place

According to the official Anadolu Agency, a three-car accident had occurred at the same location shortly before, and rescue teams were on the scene when the truck plowed into the crowd.

On Saturday, another accident involving an ambulance and a bus left 16 dead and 21 injured on the highway connecting Gaziantep and Nizip in the country’s southeast, about 250 km east of Derik.

According to Turkish news agency DHA, which also broadcast the images, an ambulance, a fire engine and a car carrying a team of journalists who went to the scene of another accident were killed head-on by the bus.

According to local media, four members of the rescue team, three firefighters and two journalists from the Turkish news agency Ilhas were among the dead.