47 injured after bus carrying soldiers overturns in Turkey’s Samsun
SAMSUN
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The bus overturned in the Kavak district after driver Zehni Kasar lost control of steering while carrying soldiers to the Çarşamba Airport from the nearby Tokat province.
A total of 46 soldiers, including a first lieutenant, and the driver Kasar were reportedly injured in the accident.
The injured were taken to hospitals nearby and most of them were reported to be in a stable condition. Some 17 of them were transferred to hospitals in Samsun, while the others received outpatient care, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Samsun Governor İbrahim Şahin visited the injured at Kavak State Hospital, where one soldier and Kasar remain in a critical condition.
They were transferred to the medical faculty hospital in Samsun.