Sixteen (16) people died and 22 were injured in the southeast. Turkey in a traffic accident involving an ambulance, the Governor of Gaziantep Province said today.
The governor of the region, Davut Gul, previously spoke of 15 deaths “as a result of a traffic accident involving a bus, rescuers and an ambulance on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip.”
TAG otoyolu Gaziantep-Nizip araşı 20. Km’de otübüs, kurtarma ekibi ve ambulansın kazada ilk sındımelere gore?
3 itfaye employees,
2 medical workers,
2gazeteci olmak sımın, only 15 citizens died, 22 citizens were injured.Milletimizın başı sag olsun
— Davut Gul (@gul_davut) August 20, 2022
According to the Turkish DHA news agency, an ambulance, a fire engine and a car carrying a group of journalists who were on the scene to cover another accident collided head-on with a passenger bus on the same highway.
According to local media, among the 16 dead were four rescuers, three firefighters and two journalists from the Turkish news agency Ilhas.
Images released by DHA show the back of a partially damaged ambulance and an overturned bus with a damaged front.
Gaziantep’te katliam gibi kaza: 15 ölü, 22 yaralıhttps://t.co/if4EzIl7xe pic.twitter.com/POZO5d3s8S
— Demiroren Haber Ayansi (@dhainternet) August 20, 2022
God bless our citizens who died in the accident in Gaziantep, Yaralılarımıza acil şifalar diliyorum.
Milletimizın başı sag olsun. @gantepvaliligi @BedrettinDogaan pic.twitter.com/68Ca70k79g
— Mardin Guvenlik Korujarli Shehit Ve Gazi Dernegi (@MardinGuvenlik) August 20, 2022
Source: APE-MPE, AFP.
Source: Kathimerini
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