BEIJING, Jan. 22 -- At least nine people were killed Saturday when an avalanche crashed down a mountain onto a road, burying a passenger bus, the Anatolia news agency reported.

    Seventeen other passengers were injured, the report said.

    The avalanche occurred on a road linking the city of Diyarbakir, in southeast Turkey, to the snow-covered city of Bitlis, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) to the northwest, the agency said.

(Source: China Daily/AP/Xinhua)