School bus rolls over in Samsun: One child loses her life

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A school bus rolled over in Turkey's Black Sea province of Samsun, claiming the life of one child and wounding six children and the driver.

The accident happened in the Kuzören Neighborhood in Yakakent in the morning hours today (March 9). 15-year-old Sibel Şahin, a student of the Kozköy Multi-Program Anatolian High School, has lost her life and seven people, including her twin, have been wounded.

The deceased child will reportedly be laid to rest in the cemetery in Kuzören Neighborhood in the afternoon tomorrow after funeral prayers. Hospitalized in the Alaçam State Hospital and Bafra State Hospital, the three wounded children are reportedly in a critical condition.

Two days ago, on March 7, a school bus hit a parked lorry in Rize. While one person died in the accident, 13 children, 2 severely, were wounded.

'Mobile teaching is a result'

Speaking to bianet about six months ago following a deadly school bus accident, Students' Parents Association Chair Ömer Yılmaz said that "mobile teaching is a result and what is important is to open village schools again and to appoint teachers to work in those schools".

Yılmaz defined it as a "big problem" that schools in rural areas have been closed and children go to central places as part of mobile teaching. Raising concerns about the lack of control in school busses in mobile teaching, he noted that the lack of inspections leads to accidents and deaths." (AÖ/SD)