Road and rail

23.11, crash, fatalities

Turkey: nine people were killed and 18 others injured as a passenger train crashed into a vehicle carrying workers in the southern Turkish province of Mersin. The train was en route from another southern province of Adana to Mersin when it collided with a lorry in Tarsus town in Mersin. Nine people died at the spot. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. One of the 29 injured died subsequently.