{"id":18488,"date":"2018-10-15T02:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18488"},"modified":"2018-10-15T02:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T02:22:26","slug":"turkey-izmir-lorry-crash-kills-22-migrants-including-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18488","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: Izmir lorry crash kills 22 migrants, including children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least 22 people, including children, have been killed when a vehicle carrying refugees and migrants<\/a> plunged off a road into a waterway in western Turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The lorry was travelling on a highway in the Izmir region close to Izmir airport on Sunday when it flipped over and fell into the channel several metres below, Anadolu news agency said.<\/p>\n

Turkish television showed the stricken wreckage of the vehicle, which was reduced to burned-out metal by the impact of the crash with corpses strewn beside.<\/p>\n

Thirteen people were injured and taken by ambulance to nearby hospitals, according to local media.<\/p>\n

The DHA news agency said the driver of the vehicle, a Turkish man aged 35, survived and told police from his hospital bed that he had swerved to avoid an oncoming white vehicle.<\/p>\n

The dead included two babies and two children as well as a pregnant woman, DHA reported.<\/p>\n

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The truck’s passengers were foreigners who had reached a deal with traffickers to be transported by boat to the Greek island of Samos, south of Izmir. <\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey became one of the main launch points for more than a million refugees and asylum seekers taking the sea route to EU countries in 2015, many fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East<\/a> and Africa.<\/p>\n

The influx of people was drastically curtailed by a 2016 accord between Ankara and the EU, after hundreds died crossing to Greek islands a few miles off Turkey.<\/p>\n

According to UN figures, more than 24,500 migrants and refugees have arrived in Greece by sea so far this year, with 118 people losing their lives via this route.<\/p>\n

Last week, eight people were found drowned off the Karaburun district, also in Izmir province, after their boat capsized.<\/p>\n

Twenty-six others are still officially listed as missing after that accident, according to Anadolu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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