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10 migrants dead, 30 hurt in Turkey bus crash: official

Ten illegal immigrants died yesterday and 30 were injured when the driver of a packed minibus refused an order to stop and crashed into a shop in northwest Turkey, local officials and media said.

The driver ignored an order by a security official to halt, speeding up instead and crashing into a shop near the Greek border, the office of the governor of Edirne province said in a statement.

The private DHA news agency said there were 40 people in the minibus. All 30 survivors were injured. The nationality of the illegal immigrants was not known.

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