Nine die as avalanche buries bus

At least nine people were killed in Turkey today when an avalanche crashed down a mountain on to a road, burying a passenger bus, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Seventeen other passengers were injured, the report said.

The avalanche happened on a road linking the city of Diyarbakir, in south-east Turkey, to the snow-covered city of Bitlis, some 120 miles to the north-west, the agency said.