16 Iranian tourists killed in Turkey bus crash

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.