In Turkey, more than 60 people injured in two bus accidents over three days, including foreign tourists

Accident in Aksaray involving foreign tourists

At least 16 foreign tourists were injured in a bus accident in the central Turkish province of Aksaray, the DHA agency reported; Gazeta.Ru covered the incident. The accident occurred at around 08:00 local time on the Aksaray–Nevşehir highway. The bus was traveling from Avanos, where the tourists had visited the sights of Cappadocia; among the passengers were citizens of Costa Rica, Brazil and Taiwan. According to the agency, the driver lost control, after which the bus overturned. Two of the injured are in serious condition. Medics, gendarmerie and rescuers arrived at the scene, and the injured were taken to the Aksaray training and research hospital.

Accident two days earlier on the Antalya–Iğdır route

This is already the second major bus accident in Turkey in just a few days. On November 3, a bus traveling from Antalya to Iğdır, ran off the road into a ditch and overturned 20 km from the town of Beyşehir; 45 people were injured, most of them lightly. Three were taken to a hospital in the Seydişehir district, and five to medical facilities in Konya. The preliminary cause was also cited as the driver losing control; this was reported by the outlet Rudaw (as cited by Gazeta.Ru).

What is known and what remains unclear

Both accidents share the preliminary version that the driver lost control, but in both cases the sources present it specifically as preliminary — the final causes have not been named. The reports also contain no information about the nationality of the passengers on the bus bound for Iğdır, or about the condition of the two tourists from Aksaray after hospitalization. In total, at least 61 people were injured in the two incidents over three days.