Eight people have been killed after a bus rolled off a road in Turkey, a senior official confirmed. The vehicle skidded down an embankment in the country’s Antalya province on Sunday while driving on a highway slip road in Dosemealti.

Shocking pictures captured the bus, operated by the Buzlu company and traveling on the Tekirdag–Antalya route, lying on its side after plunging nearly 50 feet into the ditch. Provincial Governor Hulusi Sahin said 26 people were injured, some of them critically, after being thrown from the bus. 

He said: “The ground was wet and there was also fog in the area. It’s not a place to speed, but it seems the bus was speeding.”

Local media is reporting that the driver lost control of the steering wheel while going through heavy fog on the slippery road.

A passenger who survived the crash said the weather was poor and the driver failed to move the bus round a curve before it broke through the barriers, according to Turkiye Today.

Emergency services rushed to the scene, including medical teams, firefighters, disaster response units, the gendarmerie, and the police.

Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc confirmed that a judicial investigation had been launched into the incident, with a deputy chief prosecutor and two public prosecutors assigned to the case.

In a separate incident, seven people were killed and five injured in a collision involving two cars. The crash occurred in the neighboring province of Burdur, on the Antalya–Isparta highway near the Kazak Tunnel. 

The fire department, 112 Emergency Medical Services, and gendarmerie teams were all dispatched to the scene.