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)

Bus fire kills 20, injures 15 in Pakistan's Punjab

STORY: Bus fire kills 20, injures 15 in Pakistan's Punjab DATELINE: Aug. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:39 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the fire accident site STORYLINE: At least 20 people were burnt to death and 15 others injured on Sunday after a passenger bus hit a vehicle and caught fire in Hafizabad district of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, the rescue and health officials reported. The rescue service said that the accident took place early morning on the freeway at Faisalabad Toll Plaza when the bus collided with a pickup van carrying fuel drums in it, resulting in the eruption of fire. Upon receiving the information, the rescue workers immediately reached the site and shifted the victims to a local hospital, said the rescue service. Some of the injured had suffered the burning while three of them were in critical condition, it added. Around 40 passengers were on the bus, according to the rescue service. Reportedly, the ill-fated bus was going fro