At the least 9 individuals had been killed on Monday when a bus collided with a gasoline truck in Iran’s southeast, state media reported, the second mass casualty street accident inside days.
Mohammad Mehdi Sajjadi, head of the Purple Crescent Society in Sistan-Baluchestan province, instructed the official IRNA information company that “9 individuals misplaced their lives and 13 others had been injured within the accident during which a bus collided with a gasoline truck close to Zahedan”.
On Saturday, 10 individuals had been killed when a bus plunged right into a ravine in Iran’s western Lorestan province.
Iran has a poor street security report, with greater than 20,000 deaths in accidents recorded between March 2023 and March 2024, in keeping with figures from the judiciary’s Forensic Drugs Organisation cited by native media.
In August, 28 Pakistani Muslim pilgrims en path to Iraq had been killed when their bus crashed in central Iran.
Impoverished Sistan-Baluchestan, which borders Pakistan and Afghanistan, noticed one in all Iran’s deadliest accidents in 2004, when a gasoline tanker collided with a bus, sparking an enormous hearth that killed greater than 70 individuals.