8 Kazakh tourists still in Turkish hospital after road accident
16:45, 25 May 2009
ASTANA. May 25. KAZINFORM. /Aigul Tulekbayeva/ 8 citizens of Kazakhstan injured in the road accident near Manavgat resort city, Turkey, are still in the hospital. Kazakh MFA?s official representative Yerzhan Ashikbayev has made it public at a briefing in Astana.
Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov has urged the ministries of foreign affairs, emergencies, healthcare, transport and communications, tourism and sport to create a special interdepartmental working group to help and protect interests of the Kazakhstan?s citizens injured in the accident. Minister of Emergencies Vladimir Bozhko heads the group.
According to the preliminary estimate, the driver of the tourist bus failed to dodge the car, which crossed into oncoming lane.