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16 Iranian tourists killed in Turkey bus crash
Sixteen Iranian tourists were killed and 32 injured in a bus crash in eastern Turkey, state news agency Anatolian reported on Tuesday.
- Agencies
- Published: 17:08 September 9, 2008
Istanbul: Sixteen Iranian tourists were killed and 32 injured in a bus crash in eastern Turkey, state news agency Anatolian reported on Tuesday.
According to media reports, the driver lost control of the bus, sending it careening off a bendy road in Agri province late on Monday.
The tourists, Iranians of Armenian descent, had spent a week in eastern Turkey visiting historical sites as part of a 90-person group, Vatan newspaper reported.
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