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Bus Carrying Japanese Tourists Crashes in Türkiye, 22 Injured

This handout photograph taken and released by the Demiroren News Agency (DHA) on October 17, 2024, shows a tour bus after it overturned near Afyonkarahisar in western Türkiye. (Photo by Demiroren News AAgency / DHA (Demiroren News Agency) / AFP)
This handout photograph taken and released by the Demiroren News Agency (DHA) on October 17, 2024, shows a tour bus after it overturned near Afyonkarahisar in western Türkiye. (Photo by Demiroren News AAgency / DHA (Demiroren News Agency) / AFP)
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Bus Carrying Japanese Tourists Crashes in Türkiye, 22 Injured

This handout photograph taken and released by the Demiroren News Agency (DHA) on October 17, 2024, shows a tour bus after it overturned near Afyonkarahisar in western Türkiye. (Photo by Demiroren News AAgency / DHA (Demiroren News Agency) / AFP)
This handout photograph taken and released by the Demiroren News Agency (DHA) on October 17, 2024, shows a tour bus after it overturned near Afyonkarahisar in western Türkiye. (Photo by Demiroren News AAgency / DHA (Demiroren News Agency) / AFP)

A bus carrying Japanese tourists veered off a road and crashed into a ditch in Türkiye on Thursday, injuring 22 people on board, the state-run news agency reported.

The accident occurred on a highway in Afyonkarahisar province, about 250 kilometers southwest of Ankara, the Anadolu Agency reported.

The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

The injured passengers, including one who was in life-threatening condition, were taken to hospitals in Afyonkarahisar, the agency said.

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UN Seeks Probe into Reported Mass Killing of Afghans Migrating to Iran

Iranians drive past an anti-Israeli billboard with a sentence reading in Persian and Hebrew, 'Israel is no longer a safe place for living' at the Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, 16 October 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
Iranians drive past an anti-Israeli billboard with a sentence reading in Persian and Hebrew, 'Israel is no longer a safe place for living' at the Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, 16 October 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
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UN Seeks Probe into Reported Mass Killing of Afghans Migrating to Iran

Iranians drive past an anti-Israeli billboard with a sentence reading in Persian and Hebrew, 'Israel is no longer a safe place for living' at the Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, 16 October 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH
Iranians drive past an anti-Israeli billboard with a sentence reading in Persian and Hebrew, 'Israel is no longer a safe place for living' at the Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran, 16 October 2024. EPA/ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH

The United Nations' mission in Afghanistan called on Thursday for an investigation into reports that a large group of Afghan migrants had been shot and killed on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
Afghan media outlets including Tolo News, citing witnesses, said more than 200 Afghan migrants who entered Iran illegally were attacked on Iranian territory, and that dozens had been killed and injured.
Iran's ambassador to Afghanistan, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, denied the reports of the "death of dozens of illegal nationals" in a post on X.
Tolo News quoted an "Iranian human rights organization" saying that Iranian border guards had attacked the migrants.
Afghanistan's Taliban-run administration has not confirmed the incident and said it was investigating.
The United Nations' Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in a statement expressed "deep concern over disturbing reports of an incident on 14 to 15 October in Sistan province, Sarbaz district, Kala Gan border area of Iran, with allegations that a large group of Afghan migrants were opened fire on, resulting in deaths and injuries."
It did not make any reference to who might have carried out the alleged attack.
UNAMA called for a "thorough and transparent" investigation into the alleged incident, stressing that the rights of migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers are protected by international law.
Afghanistan authorities have been unable to confirm the incident because it happened "beyond Afghanistan's borders," deputy spokesman of the government Hamdullah Fitrat said in a statement.
He said a high-ranking delegation with officials from the interior, foreign and defense ministries had begun an investigation and would submit a report once the facts were clear.