ISTANBUL: Sixteen people were killed in southeastern Turkey on Saturday August 20 when a bus rammed rescue workers and journalists attending a previous crash on a highway near the town of Gaziantep, local authorities said .
Regional Governor Davut Gul said the dead included three firefighters, four emergency health workers and two drone operators from a Turkish news agency.
“At around 10:45 a.m. this morning, a passenger bus crashed here,” Gul said, speaking from the crash site on the road east of Gaziantep.
“While firefighters, medical teams and other colleagues were responding to the accident, another bus crashed 200m behind. The second bus slid towards this site and rammed into first responders and injured at floor.”
Vice President Fuat Oktay said rescuers and journalists had “lost their lives in the line of duty”.