Six migrants drowned in southeastern Turkey

Investigations and reports

16-12-2022, 20:30

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Baghdad-INA

The local governor's office in Turkey announced the death of six people who drowned as their bus fell into an irrigation canal in southeastern Turkey.

Five other migrants were injured, while 25 people were rescued in the accident, which occurred 15km north of the Syrian border, without immediately clarifying the nationalities of the migrants.

A local report indicated that "the accident occurred when the bus driver was trying to evade local security forces who were looking for people trying to cross the border illegally.".

Turkey has the largest number of refugees in the world, with more than five million people, under an agreement reached to stop the crisis of the flow of migrants to the European Union in 2016.