Istanbul : Eight people were killed and some 35 were injured, with four in critical condition, after an intercity bus toppled off a highway in Türkiye’s western Afyonkarahisar district, Governor Kubra Guran Yigitbasi.
The passenger bus was on a cross-country route from Diyarbakir in the east to the western resort city of Bodrum.
The driver lost control of the steering wheel in the high-altitude region, Yigitbasi was cited as saying by broadcaster TRT. She gave no further details.
“I pray for Allah’s mercy on our citizens who lost their lives in the tragic bus accident in Afyonkarahisar’s Dinar distric,” Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu posted on his Twitter account.
