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At least 32 people were killed in south-east Turkey on Saturday when vehicles crashed into first responders who were attending earlier accidents, authorities said, Reuters reported. Sixteen people including emergency workers and journalists died when a bus crashed into an earlier accident site, regional governor Davut Gul from south-eastern province of Gaziantep, said. Another 20 people were wounded and received treatment. “At around 10.45 this morning, a passenger bus crashed here,” Gul said, speaking from the scene of the accident on the road east of Gaziantep. “While the fire brigade, medical teams and other colleagues were responding to the accident, another bus crashed 200 metres behind. The second bus slid to this site and hit the first responders and the wounded people on the ground.” Three firefighters, two paramedics and two journalists were among those killed on the highway between Gaziantep and Nizip, the interior minister, Süleyman Soylu, tweeted. Several of the fatalities were on the bus, he added. The Ilhas news agency said two of its journalists were killed after pulling over to help the victims of the initial accident. Television footage showed an ambulance with severe damage to its rear while a bus lay on its side alongside the highway. Separately, a truck hit a site 250km (155 miles) to the east in the Derik district of Mardin, where first respondents were also attending to an accident, according to footage, according to Reuters. Sixteen people died and 29 others were injured as a result of the incident in Mardin, Turkey’s health minister, Fahrettin Koca, said, adding that eight of the wounded were in a critical condition. Turkey has a poor record of road safety. According to the government, 5,362 people were killed in traffic accidents last year, Reuters reported.

Nepal reported 623 new Covid-19 cases on Friday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, 1, 621 swab samples were tested in the RT-PCR method, of which 246 returned positive. Likewise, 3, 324 people underwent antigen tests, of which 377 were tested positive. The Ministry said that no one died of virus in the last 24 hours. The Ministry said that 487 infected people recovered from the disease. As of today, there are 5, 024 active cases in the country.

The District Police Office, Baglung has apprehended two persons for their alleged involvement in kidnapping a girl. Among the accused, one is a policeman. The suspects have been identified as Shankar Acharya and Bhagawati Chhetri (36) of Jaimini Municipality-7 in the district. Acharya is a policeman. They tried to abduct a six-year-old daughter of Sapana Thapa of Dhading and currently residing at Ramrekha of Baglung Municipality-1. The two are accused of forcibly picking up the girl from Hallanchowk of Baglung-2 and trying to take her towards Buddha Bihar. The girl's mother said that the duo took her daughter when she was at her office and her spouse was out of their residence to buy vegetables. Police said that they are looking into the case.

Three persons died in two separate road accidents in Kurintar and Ratnanagar of Chitwan district. Two youths died when a motorcycle (Ba 88 Pa 5301) heading towards Kathmandu from Narayanghat collided with a truck (Na 6 Kha 5913) at Kurintar in Ichchhakamana Rural Municipality-4 along the Prithvi Highway. The deceased have been identified as bike rider Saroj Rokaya (25) of Dailekh and Saroj Majhi (31) of Ishwarpur Rural Municipality-1 in Sarlahi district, the District Traffic Police Office said. The duo breathed their last during the course of treatment at the Chitwan Medical College. Likewise, a pedestrian died when a jeep knocked him down near Khageri bridge in Ratnanagar Municipality-9, police said. Khadak Bahadur Ranamagar (70), who was critically injured in the accident, died while receiving treatment at the Chitwan Medical College Hospital this morning. The jeep driver fled the scene after the accident, it has been learnt. Meanwhile, the local residents have staged a demonstration demanding arrest of the jeep driver.