In the district of Aydıncık in Mersin in southern Türkiye, a tragic accident occurred when an intercity passenger bus overturned, ensuing within the lack of 9 lives and leaving 30 people injured.
The bus was en route from the resort city Marmaris to the nation’s southeastern province of Mardin.
The incident passed off on the exit of the Sarıyar Tunnel within the Yenikaş neighborhood on the D-400 freeway, the place the bus collided with a barrier and overturned.
Upon receiving the notification, emergency response groups together with well being employees, gendarmerie, Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), and firefighting models had been dispatched to the scene.
The injured had been promptly transported to hospitals by ambulances.
Mersin’s Governor Ali Hamza Pehlivan launched a written assertion, revealing that the accident occurred roughly 170 kilometers from town heart, on the Mersin-Antalya freeway, round 01:15 a.m.
“A tragic traffic accident occurred as a result of the overturning of a passenger bus with 40 passengers and 3 crew members en route to Mersin,” the governor stated.
“I extend my condolences to the families of those who lost their lives and wish a speedy recovery to the injured individuals.”
Source: www.dailysabah.com