Bus crash in western Iran leaves 10 casualties

10 people are killed and five others injured after a bus carrying them descends into a valley in the west-central Iranian province of Lorestan.

News ID: 5628

Date: 22 December 2024 - 09:15

TABNAK, Dec 22: The incident took place on Saturday on the highway linking the city of Pol-e Dokhtar in the province to the city of Andimeshk in the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan.

The tragedy affected at least seven conscripts and two other occupants riding on the bus.

Prompt police and relief action saw the injured being taken to centers for medical treatment across the province. Some of the casualties were released shortly after being admitted to the centers.

The provincial road police identified the cause of the accident as speeding and resultant loss of the vehicle’s control by the driver.

The vehicle was named as a Scania make VIP bus provided by a credible company in Ahwaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province.

The Islamic Republic’s Public Conscription Organization condoled with the survivors over the tragedy, while asserting that relevant authorities would do their utmost towards addressing the situation of the casualties and compensating their families.

In August, at least 28 Pakistani pilgrims were killed, when their bus overturned in Iran’s central province of Yazd as the occupants were heading to the Iraqi holy city of Karbala.

Three years earlier, two Iranian journalists were killed and 21 others injured, when the bus carrying them overturned in northwestern Iran.

The vehicle, which was carrying 25 journalists from the capital Tehran to West Azarbaijan Province overturned near the province’s Naqadeh county.

In 2020, a bus overturned on a road in Iran’s northern province of Mazandaran, leaving at least 20 people dead and some 24 others wounded.

The accident took place in the Doab region of Savadkouh as the vehicle was heading from Tehran to Gonbad-e Kavus in the northern Iranian Golestan Province.

And three years earlier, a bus carrying high school students overturned in Iran’s southern Iranian Hormozgan Province, leaving at least nine people, including seven school girls, dead and some 30 others injured.