TEHRAN: A bus collided with a fuel truck in southeastern Iran on Monday, killing at least nine people.
This is the second mass fatal road accident in the country within a few days.
Mohammad Mehdi Sajjadi, head of the Red Crescent Society in Sistan-Baluchistan province, told the official that “9 people were killed and 13 injured in an accident where a bus collided with a fuel truck near Zahidan”. IRNA news agency
On Saturday, 10 people were killed when a bus fell into a ditch in Iran’s western Lorestan province.
Iran has a poor road safety record, recording more than 20,000 deaths in accidents between March 2023 and March 2024, according to data from the Judiciary’s Forensic Medicine Organization, cited by local media.
In August, 28 Pakistani Muslim pilgrims to Iraq were killed when their bus crashed in central Iran.
Impoverished Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, saw one of Iran’s deadliest accidents in 2004, when a gasoline tanker collided with a bus, sparking a massive fire that killed more than 70 people. were killed