Fourteen killed in bus crash in south Turkey

Fourteen people were killed and 20 people injured when a truck ploughed into a municipal bus and a minibus in southern Turkey…

Fourteen people were killed and 20 people injured when a truck ploughed into a municipal bus and a minibus in southern Turkey.

The accident happened when the brakes on the truck failed near the entrance to a main road between the towns of Iskenderun and Antakya, near the Mediterranean coast and the border with Syria.

The injured were being treated in local hospitals.

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