In southern Turkey early Saturday, a tragic accident claimed the lives of seven people and injured 11 others when an intercity bus collided with a lorry on a motorway, according to the local governor’s office.
The accident occurred before dawn on the highway connecting Adana and Gaziantep. According to the state news agency Anadolu, the bus crashed into an articulated lorry that had stopped due to a blown-out tire.
Video from the crash site revealed severe damage to the bus’s front right section, where it struck the back of the lorry approximately 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Gaziantep.
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Anadolu, citing the Osmaniye governor’s office, reported that all casualties were passengers on the bus, with ongoing efforts to identify them.
The lorry driver, who survived, was taken into custody, and the road was closed by police, the report added.
