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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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Harris and Trump Target Michigan as Both Parties Try to Shore Up 'Blue Wall' Votes

This combination of pictures created on October 16, 2024 shows former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Cumming, Georgia, on October 15, 2024 and US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in Detroit, Michigan, October 15, 2024. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage and Geoff Robins / AFP)
This combination of pictures created on October 16, 2024 shows former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Cumming, Georgia, on October 15, 2024 and US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in Detroit, Michigan, October 15, 2024. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage and Geoff Robins / AFP)
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Harris and Trump Target Michigan as Both Parties Try to Shore Up 'Blue Wall' Votes

This combination of pictures created on October 16, 2024 shows former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Cumming, Georgia, on October 15, 2024 and US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in Detroit, Michigan, October 15, 2024. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage and Geoff Robins / AFP)
This combination of pictures created on October 16, 2024 shows former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Cumming, Georgia, on October 15, 2024 and US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in Detroit, Michigan, October 15, 2024. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage and Geoff Robins / AFP)

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will both be scouring for votes in Michigan on Friday as they try to lock down support in this key political battleground.
Harris, the Democratic vice president, is scheduled to begin her day in Grand Rapids before holding events in Lansing and Oakland County, which is northwest of Detroit.
Trump, the Republican former president, has his own event in Oakland County in the afternoon before holding a rally in Detroit in the evening, The Associated Press said.
Michigan is one of three “blue wall” states that, along with Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, will help decide the election.
Trump's event in Detroit will be his first one there since insulting the city last week. While warning what will happen if Harris is elected, he said that “our whole country will end up being like Detroit."
The city spent years hemorrhaging residents and businesses, plunging into deep financial problems, before rebounding in recent years.
One challenge for Harris in Michigan has been union support. Although traditionally a Democratic bloc, she's failed to win some key endorsements.
In addition, Arab American voters have been skeptical of Harris because of the White House's steadfast support for Israel's military operations in Gaza.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a co-chair of Harris’ campaign, said in an interview Thursday that the expectation was always that “it was going to be a close election."
“People are like, ‘Oh it’s so close.’ And I’m like, have you not been listening for decades?” Whitmer said. “Michigan is a divided state. And that’s why we don’t write off the reddest of areas on a political map. We show up.”
Kent County, where Harris will start her day Friday, leaned Republican for many years, and was won by Trump by 3% in 2016. But Biden won the county in 2020 and it has increasingly voted Democratic recently.