The death toll in traffic accidents over the four-day Eid al-Fitr holiday hit 62 people, while 251 people were injured across Turkey.
On the first day of Eid, Aug. 8, nine people were killed in traffic accidents while 94 others were injured. Some 17 died on the second day, while 93 others were injured. Sixteen more were killed and 86 others were injured in accidents on Aug. 10, the last day of Eid.
Four people, including two babies, were killed in an accident in Yozgat’s Yerköy district Aug. 8. In another incident, 27 people on a bus were wounded in Bilecik’s Bozüyük district. Aug. 9 five people were killed and seven others were injured in İzmir’s Urla district when two cars hit each other.
Ten people were also injured in an accident in Malatya’s Darende district.
Six people were killed in an accident on a highway between Korkuteli and Elmalı in Antalya that also injured five others.
Five people were also killed in an accident in Bursa’s Mustafakemalpaşa district, while 19 others hospitalized. Meanwhile, three people were killed and two others were injured in an accident in Kastamonu Aug. 10.
On the last day of the holiday, Aug. 11, when families flocked to the roads to return to their home cities, six people were killed in the southern province of Antalya’s Korkuteli district and 38 others injured.
Turkey Tribune
