In Gaziantep, Turkey, a bus crashed head-on into a fire engine, an ambulance and the vehicle of a journalist team. At least 16 people die and many more are injured. The first responders and journalists were there because of a previous accident.
At least 16 people have been killed in a road accident in Turkey. Among them 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. 21 other people were injured.
According to Gül, the firefighters, first responders and journalists were originally there because of the report of a previous accident. An approaching bus then had an accident, overturned and hit an ambulance, a fire engine and the vehicle of the journalist team head-on. Images released by the DHA news agency showed the rear of a partially torn open ambulance and numerous vehicle wreckage.
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 report on his colleagues' deaths, "couldn't hold back his tears," TRT said.
The injured are currently being treated in hospital. Nothing was initially known about the extent of the injuries. The accident happened between Gaziantep and Nizip in Southeastern Anatolia.
