AT least seven people have been killed and 11 were left injured after an intercity bus crashed into a lorry on a motorway.
The accident occurred when the coach collided with the articulated truck, which had stopped after one of its tyres blew out.
Footage from the scene showed that the front right section of the bus was totally mangled.
It hit the back of the lorry about 90 kilometres west of Gaziantep, Turkey.
Quoting the governor’s office, state media Anadolu said all of the dead and injured were on board the bus.
Efforts are ongoing to identify the victims, it added.
The lorry driver, who survived the crash, was detained with police closing down the road, it said.
Last year, ten people were killed, and a further 39 were injured after a coach collided with two other cars and a truck, causing a huge pile-up on a busy motorway.
The passenger bus skidded into the opposite lane during rainy conditions, according to reports.
Police, ambulances and fire engines rushed to the scene for urgent rescue efforts.
Meanwhile, five people were killed after a bus packed with tourists plunged about 230 feet into a gorge in northern India.
The horror crash took place at Uttarakhand’s Tehri district, sparking a frantic rescue operation.
Officials said the bus, carrying around 28 passengers, veered off the road and plunged into the gorge near the Kunjapuri–Hindolakhal route in the Narendranagar area, a popular stretch in northern India.
According to the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), the district control room alerted its Corps Control Room on Monday afternoon.
It warned that a passenger bus had gone off the hillside within the Narendranagar police station limits.
And last month, at least 25 people were killed when a bus erupted in flames after a devastating collision with a motorbike.
Passengers were heard screaming for help as fire swept through the vehicle within minutes on a highway in India.
Many on board were asleep and became trapped when the speeding bus crashed on a highway near Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh, senior police officer Vikrant Patil said.
