ANKARA, May 19: Forty people, most of them Afghan illegal immigrants, were killed and seven injured in an accident on a highway near Osmaniye, southern Turkey, on Friday, the provincial governor said. An earlier toll said 39 people were killed.
“The toll of the accident is 40 dead and seven wounded, four of them currently undergoing surgery,” Governor Zubeyir Kemelek told the NTV channel.
Most of the dead, he said, were Afghan illegal immigrants.
He said the accident occurred when a truck carrying the immigrants rammed a trailer truck.—APP/AFP
