Five members of a family are dead after a head-on collision between two vehicles in the southern province of Antalya early Wednesday morning, police said.

Yalçın Öztürk was driving northbound on the D-695 when he hit a passenger bus travelling from capital Ankara to Antalya's Alanya district.

Öztürk and four other members of his family died at the scene, while another family member was hospitalized after the crash, which occurred around Mahmutlu junction, 18 km away from Akseki.

Police are investigating the cause of the crash.