According to official television, a bus and a fuel tanker crashed in southeast Iran on Monday, killing at least nine people. This is the second large-scale traffic tragedy in as many days.
The chairman of the Sistan-Baluchestan province’s Red Crescent Society, Muhammad Mehdi Sajjadi, informed the official IRNA news agency that “a bus collided with a fuel truck near Zahedan, resulting in nine fatalities and thirteen injuries.”
In the western Iranian province of Lorestan, a bus crashed into a ravine on Saturday, killing ten people.
According to data from the judiciary’s Forensic Medicine Organization, which was published by local media, Iran has a dismal record for road safety, with over 20,000 fatalities from accidents occurring between March 2023 and March 2024.
A bus carrying 28 Muslim pilgrims from Pakistan on their way to Iraq crashed in central Iran in August.
Poor One of Iran’s deadliest incidents occurred in Sistan-Baluchestan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, in 2004 when a bus and a gasoline tanker collided, causing a huge inferno that claimed over 70 lives.
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