Collision with truck
Turkey: 10 dead & dozens injured in bus accident
Ten people were killed and at least 39 others - nine of them seriously - injured in a horrific accident on a highway in southern Turkey on Sunday.
According to the Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, a coach collided with a truck and two cars on the Mersin-Adana highway in the province of Mersin. According to reports in Turkish media, the bus suddenly crossed into the oncoming lane.
The bus had been traveling towards the city of Diyarbakir when the serious accident occurred in the district of Tarsus in the province of Mersin.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his condolences to the families of the accident victims. "The relevant authorities immediately launched the necessary investigation into the accident," he said in a post (see above) on the X platform (formerly Twitter).
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