Seventeen dead in Iran road carnage
Seventeen people were killed and 20 injured when a truck collided with a bus in southeastern Iran, state media said yesterday.
The accident occurred late Tuesday evening 55 kilometres (35 miles) from Zahedan on the road to Zabol in Sistan-Baluchestan province.
The injured truck driver said that the accident happened after he swerved to avoid a car and his trailer hit the bus.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Iran's roads are considered to be among the most dangerous in the world, with some 100,000 road-accident deaths in the last five years.
On June 24, about 90 people died in the same pzovince when a fuel truck lost control and crashed into a police station, with the explosion engulfing other trucks, cars and buses.
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