Three firefighters, four health workers and two journalists from a Turkish news agency were among those killed on the road between Gaziantep and Nizip, both in the country’s southeastern Gaziantep province, regional governor Davut Gul said. Speaking from the scene of the accident, Mr Gul said: “Around 10.45 this morning, a passenger bus crashed here. “While the fire brigade, medical teams and other colleagues were responding to the accident, another bus fell 200 meters back. “The second bus skidded at this point and knocked the first responders and injured people to the ground.” The rest of those killed were bus passengers, Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu said. Mr Gul said another 22 people had been injured. Ilhas News Agency reported that two of the drone’s operators were killed after they drifted to help victims of the initial crash. The first bus had gone off the road and down an embankment. Television footage from the scene showed an ambulance badly damaged and the bus overturned on its side. Vice President Fuat Oktai said emergency workers and journalists “died in the line of duty”.
