| GEO World | | 18 killed as truck with immigrants veers off Turkish road | Updated at: 1828 PST, Sunday, October 05, 2008
ANKARA: Eighteen people died when a truck carrying illegal immigrants veered off the road and fell into a ditch in northwestern Turkey Sunday.
Twenty-three others were injured in the accident near the town of Malkara, Tekirdag province, governor Aydin Nezih Dogan said.
Most of the victims were immigrants from Burma and officials were trying to identify them, he added.
Turkey lies on a major human smuggling route from Asia to Europe. The immigrants mostly try to cross by land to nearby Greece, or brave clandestine sea journeys to Greece or Italy. |  |
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