10 killed, 39 injured in Turkish traffic accident
STORY: 10 killed, 39 injured in Turkish traffic accident
SHOOTING TIME: May 26, 2024
DATELINE: May 27, 2024
LENGTH: 00:00:54
LOCATION: Ankara
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the highway accident site in the southern Mersin province of Türkiye (courtesy of ihlas news agency)
2. various of the wounded being transferred
STORYLINE:
Ten people were killed and 39 others injured on Sunday in a highway accident in the southern Mersin province of Türkiye, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.
An intercity passenger bus, a truck and cars were involved in a chain accident in the Tarsus district near the Mediterranean city of Mersin, Yerlikaya said on social media platform X.
The bus reportedly slipped in the rainy weather, overturned, and crossed into the opposite lane, causing a chain accident involving two cars and a pickup truck.
Police, gendarmerie, medical, and fire brigade teams were sent to the scene of the accident.
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Ankara.
(XHTV)
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