12 dead in a bus accident involving migrants in Eastern Turkey

The state news agency Anadolu reported that a minibus carrying migrants in eastern Turkey overturned and in Fire, killing 12 people and injuring 20 others.

It cited safety sources that a minibus could carry more passengers than its capacity in fell over for some unknown reason near the village of Yumaqli.

The sources confirmed that rescue, rescue and fire service teams were on the spot immediately.

She explained that after the bus overturned, it caught fire, which required the intervention of the fire department.

It reported that 12 people were killed and 20 others injured in the accident, die in nearby hospitals in the area were brought.

The bus crashed while driving at night in near Yumakli in the province of Van bordering Iran in a ditch.

Televised broadcasts showed roadside survivors groaning and being treated while rescue workers die searched burning debris.

Migrants, mostly from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, regularly cross on foot die Iranian border in die Turkey before heading west in Cities like Istanbul and Ankara can be brought.

Metin Korapatir, Head of the Center for Asylum and Migration Studies in Ankara said the proposed US withdrawal from Afghanistan had young people die to attempt, die Take the mountain route, given additional lift.

In June 2020, more than 60 migrants died in Lake Van when their boat sank.

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