Bus Crash Leaves 16 Tourists Dead

Emil Lazarian News

BUS CRASH LEAVES 16 TOURISTS DEAD

Independent Online
Sept 9 2008
South Africa

Istanbul – Sixteen Iranian tourists were killed and 32 injured when
their bus careered off a bendy road in eastern Turkey, state news
agency Anatolian said on Tuesday.

The crash took place late on Monday in Agri province after the driver
lost control of the bus, media reports said.

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.

The buses were heading back to the Turkey-Iran border.

Ambulances were sent to the scene and gendarme paramilitary police
worked to save passengers trapped inside the bus. The injured were
taken to hospitals in Van, Agri and Igdir provinces, Anatolian said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS