A bus carrying Russian tourists skidded off a highway in southern Turkey and fell off a bridge Tuesday, killing 16 people and injuring 25 others, officials said. The bus broke through iron barriers, flipped over and fell about 20 feet (six meters) onto its roof in a river bed, NTV television footage showed. Rescue workers struggled to pull the bodies and injured from the wreckage, Deputy Gov. Mehmet Seyman of the Mediterranean province of Antalya said. Fourteen Russian passengers, their Turkish tour guide and the bus driver were killed. It was not immediately clear how many people in total had been on board. «We woke up as the bus flipped over,» the state-run Anatolia news agency quoted one of the injured passengers, Lena Rasuleva, as saying. «I fell unconscious and opened my eyes in the hospital.» At least one baby and a toddler were among the injured, including Rasuleva's daughter, Diana, Anatolia reported.
