UPDATE - 6 dead, 42 injured in western Turkey road crash

UPDATES NUMBER OF INJURED, ADDS GOVERNOR’S STATEMENT; REVISES HEADLINE, LEDE

By Ahmet Bayram

MANISA, Turkey (AA) – Six people died and 42 more were wounded in a road crash in western Turkey on Friday.

A truck and a passenger bus collided in Soma district of Turkey’s Manisa province.

All the victims have been shifted to nearby hospitals.

Yasar Karadeniz, governor of Manisa, told reporters that four of the injured are in serious condition.

There is also a foreign national among the 42 survivors, he added.