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Tragic traffic accident in Turkey: Fifteen people were killed and 22 injured – Watch video

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Three firefighters, two rescuers and two journalists are among the 15 dead, the governor of Gaziantep said.

Fifteen people were killed and 22 injured in southeast Turkey in a road accident involving an ambulance, the governor of Gaziantep province announced today.

“A total of 15 of our citizens lost their lives and 22 were injured in the accident involving a coach, a rescue team and an ambulance on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip,” governor Davut Gul said in a tweet.

According to it, an ambulance, a fire engine and a vehicle carrying a group of journalists, who had gone to the scene of an accident, were hit head-on by a passenger bus traveling on the same highway.

Three firefighters, two rescuers and two journalists are among the 15 dead, the governor of Gaziantep said.

Images broadcast by the DHA agency show the back of a partially damaged ambulance and several vehicle wreckage.

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