TURKEY: Migrant lorry crash ‘kills 22’ in Izmir

At least 22 people, including a number of children, were killed in Turkey when a lorry carrying migrants plunged off a road, state media say. The lorry crashed through a barrier and landed in an irrigation canal 20m (65ft) below, in the western province of Izmir. The nationality of the victims was not immediately known. […]

At least 22 people, including a number of children, were killed in Turkey when a lorry carrying migrants plunged off a road, state media say.

The lorry crashed through a barrier and landed in an irrigation canal 20m (65ft) below, in the western province of Izmir.

The nationality of the victims was not immediately known.

A day earlier, 11 people thought to be migrants died when their car burst into flames after a crash in Greece.

The lorry was travelling from Aydin to Izmir when Sunday’s accident happened, the Anadolu agency said.

It was reportedly taking the migrants to the coast, where they would have boarded inflatable dinghies heading to Greece’s Samos island.

In addition to the dead, 13 people were taken to hospital with injuries.

The DHA agency said the 35-year-old Turkish driver had survived the crash and told police he had swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle.