A passenger minibus running between Hatay and Gaziantep collided head-on with an oncoming car at around 6:06 p.m. near the rural Acaroba neighbourhood on the Gaziantep-Nurdağı road in southern Türkiye. The minibus overturned and the car was wrecked.
Fire, police, gendarmerie, disaster agency AFAD, health and national medical rescue teams were sent to the scene, and the injured were taken to hospitals in the city after first aid.
Gaziantep Deputy Governor İlker Eker said the crash was caused by the car overtaking improperly. “Seven people, two of them children and five adults, lost their lives,” he said. All of the dead were in the car, and 13 people were injured. The initial death toll had been given as five.