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Turkish police nab 20 migrants on truck hours after deadly accident
Turkish police nab 20 migrants on truck hours after deadly accident
Turkish police have nabbed 20 Afghan migrants traveling in the back of a truck in the western province of Bursa. Click through for the story in photos...
Traffic police noticed the migrants on board the truck late Oct. 14 as they were waiting at a gas station in the Osmangazi district while its driver had a restroom break.
The Syrian driver, who carried a fake driver’s license, was detained and the Afghans were sent to the migration office for deportation.
The incident came hours after 22 people including children died when a vehicle carrying migrants reportedly heading for Greece plunged off the highway into a waterway in the western Turkish province of İzmir.
Images on Turkish television showed the wreckage of the vehicle upside-down in the river channel, reduced to burned-out metal by the impact of the crash with corpses strewn alongside it.
Rescue workers later used a crane to lift it onto the road, with images showing the vehicle’s back end was simply an open container into which the migrants had been crammed.
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