Eleven people have been killed and 27 others injured after a coach overturned following a collision with a truck in western Turkey on Sunday, authorities said.
The crash occurred near the entrance to a motorway linking Bursa and the coastal city of Izmir, according to the governor’s office in the Manisa district.
Emergency services were dispatched to the scene following the accident, Turkey’s Interior Minister, Mustafa Ciftci, said in a post on X.
“We are closely following the situation, in coordination with all the institutions concerned,” Ciftci said.
Photographs published by Turkish news agency DHA showed the coach lying across safety barriers, with its windscreen smashed.
Authorities confirmed the death toll at 11, while 27 people sustained injuries. Further details about the victims and the circumstances surrounding the collision were not immediately provided.
