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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.

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  • Published: 17:08 September 9, 2008
  • Gulf News

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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