Nine people are dead and 26 are injured after a passenger bus overturned into a ravine in southern Türkiye on Sunday, a wreck that began with a sharp curve and wet, fog-bound asphalt.
The bus, operated by the Buzlu company, was travelling from Tekirdağ to Antalya when it hit roadside barriers in the Döşemealtı district and tumbled into a ravine at about 10:20 a.m., at a spot known as the Kömürler Junction. Antalya Governor Hulusi Şahin said eight people died at the scene. The driver, Izzet Karaağaç, could not be saved and died after the rescue, lifting the toll to nine.
“The road had fog, the driver was going too fast,” one passenger, Ahmet Kondaz, told CNNTurk. He said people began to fall as the bus slid, and he could not hold them.
Şahin said 22 patients were transferred to hospitals in the area, seven of them still in critical condition. Four were being treated at a City Hospital and three at a Training and Research Hospital; two of the injured underwent amputations and were moved for surgery to reattach limbs. Preliminary observations pointed to a wet road and fog, with the bus travelling at a speed unsuitable for the conditions.
The bus had left Tekirdağ in northwestern Türkiye the previous evening, carrying 34 passengers. Separately, two vehicles collided near the Kazak Tunnel on the Antalya-Isparta highway, leaving seven people dead and five injured, according to early reports.
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- Turkey bus crash: 9 dead in Antalya accident amid fog and rain
- Bus crash in southern Türkiye kills 9, injures 26 | Daily Sabah
