At least 23 people died and 11 more were seriously injured Saturday when a bus carrying women and children plunged off a cliff near the southwestern Turkish sea resort of Marmaris. "Sadly, we have had 20 fatalities and 11 other seriously injured," said Amir Cicek, the governor of Mugla province, calling it a "horrible accident." His deputy Kamil Koten said the bus plunged through a crash barrier and fell 15 metres (50 feet) on to a lower road, smashing a car with its three occupants.

"If we count these three deaths, the number of the dead rises to 23," the state-run Anadolu news agency quoted him as saying. The accident occurred near the Sakar Pass on a steep winding road filled with hairpin bends. Cicek told NTV television an investigation was under way.

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