TEHRAN: At least nine people were killed on Monday when a bus collided with a fuel truck in Iran´s southeast, state media reported, the second mass casualty road accident within days.
Mohammad Mehdi Sajjadi, head of the Red Crescent Society in Sistan-Baluchestan province, told the official IRNA news agency that “nine people lost their lives and 13 others were injured in the accident in which a bus collided with a fuel truck near Zahedan”.
On Saturday, 10 people were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine in Iran´s western Lorestan province. Iran has a poor road safety record, with more than 20,000 deaths in accidents recorded between March 2023 and March 2024, according to figures from the judiciary´s Forensic Medicine Organisation cited by local media.