16 IRANIAN TOURISTS KILLED IN TURKEY BUS CRASH

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Sept 9 2008
United Arab Emirates

Istanbul: Sixteen Iranian tourists were killed and 32 injured in a
bus crash in eastern Turkey, state news agency Anatolian reported
on Tuesday.

According to media reports, the driver lost control of the bus,
sending it careening off a bendy road in Agri province late on Monday.

The tourists, Iranians of Armenian descent, had spent a week in eastern
Turkey visiting historical sites as part of a 90-person group, Vatan
newspaper reported.