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The Grand Turk
22 killed, 13 injured as truck carrying migrants crashes in Turkey
2018-10-15
[Al Ahram] Twenty-two people, including children, were killed when a truck carrying migrants colonists crashed in the western Ottoman Turkish province of Izmir on Sunday, the state-owned Anadolu news agency reported.

The mangled wreckage of the open-topped truck lay toppled over in a canal, some 20 metres below a highway from which it apparently fell after crashing through a barrier, video and photos published by Anadolu showed.

Thirteen people were maimed and taken by ambulance to nearby hospitals, it said.

A state prosecutor has launched an investigation into the crash and the truck driver could face arrest after hospital treatment, it added.

According to the private Demiroren news agency (DHA), the truck's passengers were foreign migrants colonists who had reached a deal with traffickers to be transported by boat to the Greek island of Samos south of Izmir.

Nine of those injured were children, DHA said. It was not clear where the migrants colonists were from.

Posted by:Fred

#2  We're accumulating some data with a trend line that suggests immigrants can't drive.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-10-15 12:10  

#1  
Posted by: Thregum Greath3827   2018-10-15 06:46  

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