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A truck carrying migrants crashed Sunday in the western province of Izmir in Turkey, killing at least 15 people, including children, and wounding others, the agency reported. official Anadolu press.
A video footage shows the mutilated wreckage of the open-top truck tipped in an irrigation canal. Anadolu stated that the truck, which was traveling from Aydin to Izmir, had gone off the road, crashed through a barrier, overturned and fell about 25 meters from the road. 39, a highway.
According to the Associated Press news agency, the private news agency Demiroren said the death toll was 18 dead. Ambulances were sent to the area to treat the wounded. The details on the migrants were not immediately available.
A CNN Turk correspondent at the scene of the accident said the emergency teams were still trying to trace the dead and wounded trapped under the truck, according to Reuters.
In recent years, hundreds of thousands of migrants have go to sea from the Turkish coasts to try to reach neighboring Greece, which is a major entry point for refugees or economic migrants looking for a better life in Europe. More than 24,000 have arrived so far this year, according to The A.P. Most are planning to continue their activities in more prosperous European countries, but are blocked by the closed borders in the Balkans.
An agreement reached in 2016 between Turkey and the European Union to return these migrants to Turkey has significantly reduced the number of illegal crossings, said the AP, but many desperate migrants are still trying the trip.
Greek officials said the number of arrests at the land border with Turkey so far this year was about double the total for 2017, although the sea route leading to the islands of the East Aegean Sea remains more popular.
The fatal accident in Turkey occurred a day after a vehicle suspected of being part of a smuggling operation collided with a truck early Saturday morning in northern Greece, making 11 presumed dead to be migrants.
The two vehicles exploded near the town of Kavala, police said, and rescuers removed the charred remains from the wreckage. Only the truck driver escaped with minor injuries.
Last Wednesday, two women and one girl suspected of being migrants were found dead shot dead near Greece's northeastern border with Turkey, the Greek authorities said, according to The AP.
The victims appeared to be of North African, Middle Eastern or Asian descent, but their nationality and identity were unknown, police said.
