A bus collided Saturday with emergency teams handling an earlier accident in Turkey, leaving at least 15 dead and nearly two dozen injured.
Three firefighters, two paramedics and two journalists were among those killed on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tweeted. The other eight fatalities were on the bus, he added.The Ilhas News Agency said two of its journalists were killed after pulling over to help the victims of the initial accident, in which a car came off the highway and slid down an embankment.
Turkey has a poor record of road safety. Some 5,362 people were killed in traffic accidents last year, according to the government.
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