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At least 34 dead in two traffic accidents in Turkey

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At least 34 people were killed and dozens injured in two separate road accidents on Saturday, each at locations where clashes had occurred shortly before, local media reported.

A first accident involving a bus and an ambulance killed 15 and injured 31 others on a highway in Gaziantep province, local officials said, revising a previous toll of 16.

Governor Davut Gul earlier said the accident involved “a bus, an emergency response team and an ambulance” on the route between the provincial capital Gaziantep and Nizip.

The DHA news agency said a passenger bus collided with an ambulance, a fire engine and a vehicle carrying journalists at the site of an earlier accident.

Three paramedics, three firefighters and two journalists from the Turkish news agency Ilhas were among those killed, local media reported.

Photos on DHA showed the back of the ambulance ripped out and the bus damaged.

Gendarmes are currently questioning the driver of the bus to find out what happened, DHA reported.

– Investigations initiated –

A few hours earlier, prosecutors were investigating a second fatal accident 250 kilometers away, which also occurred while emergency services were attending to an earlier incident at the site.

On that occasion, at least 19 people were killed and nearly 30 injured after a truck driver drove into pedestrians in Derik, Mardin province, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca wrote on Twitter, updating an earlier figure of 16.

The accident in Derik, Mardin province, “happened after the brakes of a truck that hit a crowd stopped,” Koca wrote. Another 26 were injured, six seriously, he added.

Turkish media shared footage of a driver losing control of his truck and then speeding toward nearby vehicles and pedestrians as they attempted to flee.

The official Turkish press agency Anadolu reported that a three-vehicle accident had occurred at the same location shortly before. Emergency services were already on site when the truck drove into a crowd.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag announced on Twitter that the public prosecutor’s office had launched two investigations into the accidents.

“All resources are being mobilized,” he wrote on Twitter, offering his condolences to those who lost theirs.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sent Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu to the scene of the accident and he was expected there later on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reported.

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