Official: At least 16 Russian tourists killed in bus crash in Turkey

Official: 16 Russians killed in Turkish bus crash

ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish official says at least 16 Russian tourists have been killed in a bus crash in southern Turkey.

Mehmet Seyman, deputy governor of the Mediterranean province of Antalya, says the tourists were traveling from the resort of Alanya to a site in central Turkey when their tour bus crashed into a river.

Seyman says at least 16 people were killed and 25 others injured in the crash Tuesday.

He says rescue workers are struggling to pull out the injured and bodies from the wreckage.