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At least 9 killed as train crashes into shuttle bus

At least nine people have died and five others were wounded, after a passenger train collided with a shuttle bus early Thursday



MERSIN – At least nine people have died and five others were wounded, after a commuter train collided early Thursday with a shuttle bus in Turkey's southern Mersin province.Mersin Police Chief Hasan Hüseyin Bahar and Governor Hasan Basri Güzeloğlu told reporters that the train was on a regular service between Mersin-Tarsus when it crashed into the shuttle bus.Governor Güzeloğlu added that a judicial and administrative investigation would be launched into the accident. The shuttle bus, which was carrying employees from a plant in the Tarsus-Mersin Organized Industrial Zone, broke into two in the collision.Relatives of the casualties have claimed that the guard fence at the level crossing was open while the train was passing.