Intercity passenger bus crashes in western Turkey: 8 killed, 35 injured

A passenger bus crashed off a road and overturned in Turkey's western Afyonkarahisar district on Feb. 5, killing at least eight people and injuring 35 others.

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Eight people were killed and some 35 were injured, with four in critical condition, after an intercity bus toppled off a highway in Turkey's western Afyonkarahisar district, Governor Kübra Güran Yiğitbaşı told state media.

The passenger bus was on a cross-country route from Diyarbakır in the east to the western resort city of Bodrum.

The driver lost control of the steering wheel in the high-altitude region, Yiğitbaşı was cited as saying by broadcaster TRT. She gave no further details.

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