According to Japanese Embassy in Turkey, a bus, on which Japanese tourists were most passengers, run into an accident causing a death of one Japanese tourist, in Konya, the middle part of Turkey in the night of October 17th(before dawn of 18th in Japan time).
According to the tourist agencies which planned this tour, apart from this death, twenty-three other Japanese tourists, a Japanese tour conductor and a local driver, a total of twenty-five people got injured. Among injured people, one Japanese woman is unconscious in critical condition.
The Japanese Embassy has been checking the detailed circumstance in a hurry.
According to the tourist agency which planned this tour, the accident occurred around 6 to 7 pm in local time (0 am to 1 am in Japan time).
The bus went into a skid in heavy rain, while the vehicle was moving, run past the center divider, collided on the shoulder and overturned.
Even though it was a single vehicle crash, the local police authority has been investigating the cause.
Those tourists were participants whom signed up for this tour as personal travel.
A tour conductor was accompanied with this group tour from Tokyo, Japan in October 14th, taking the group around Turkey and was supposed to come back to Japan on 22nd.
- 作品名
- Bus rollover causing 1 Japanese died and twenty-five injured. (Turkey)
- 登録日時
- 2006/10/18(水) 14:15
- 分類
- MIDDLE EAST::Turkey