ANKARA, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed, and 33 others were injured in a bus accident in the Turkish Black Sea region in Kastamonu province early on Friday, the country's Minister of Interior Ali Yerlikaya said.
"Unfortunately, six people lost their lives and 33 people were injured, three of them seriously, after the intercity passenger bus, traveling between Istanbul and Sinop, overturned at the Kastamonu exit, at around 0550 (local time) today," Yerlikaya wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Video footage posted on the Turkish minister's X account showed a bus overturned on an icy road.
The passenger bus went out of control of the driver and overturned into the field in the area where snowfall was effective in the Alatarla village of Kastamonu's Taskopru district, the local Defense Health Agency (DHA) reported.
Many gendarmerie, fire brigade and medical teams were dispatched to the scene, it said.
Türkiye has a poor record of road safety. According to official data, a total of 5,229 people lost their lives in more than 197,000 traffic accidents in 2022 alone. ■