Wedding bus crash leaves 19 dead

A BUS in a wedding convoy veered off the road and slammed into a retaining wall in northern Turkey yesterday, killing 19 people and injuring several others.

Wedding bus crash leaves 19 dead

The bus was travelling at a high speed and lost control along a road outside the northern city of Amasya, 200 miles north-east of the capital Ankara, the Anatolia newsagency reported.

Mayor of Tasova Ozgur Ozdemir, the town nearest the crash site, said on CNN-Turk television that preliminary evidence suggested that the brakes had failed on the bus.

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