At least 32 persons were killed in separate accidents in Turkey.

Authorities reported that on Saturday, at least 32 people were murdered in southeast Turkey when automobiles struck first responders who were addressing earlier accidents.

According to regional governor Davut Gul from the southeast province of Gaziantep, sixteen people—including emergency personnel and journalists—died when a bus slammed into the scene of an earlier accident. Twenty more people who were injured sought medical attention.

A passenger bus crashed here , according to Gul, who was on the site of the collision on the route east of Gaziantep.

“Another bus crashed 200 metres behind the first one while the fire department, medical personnel, and other coworkers responded to the accident. The first responders and the injured passengers on the ground were struck by the second bus as it slid up to this location.”

Separately, a truck struck a location some 250 kilometres (155 miles) east in Mardin’s Derik area where emergency personnel were attending to another accident, according to video.

According to Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, the incident in Mardin resulted in 16 fatalities and 29 injuries, with eight of the injured being in serious condition.