Bus crash in southern Iran kills at least 21, injures 34

Rescue operations are ongoing southbound of Shiraz, successful Fars province.

At slightest 21 radical person been killed aft a autobus overturned successful the southbound of Iran, authorities media has reported.

Masoud Abed, the caput of Fars province’s exigency organisation, said 34 different radical were injured successful the mishap connected Saturday southbound of Shiraz, the province’s capital.

Abed said rescue operations are ongoing, and further accusation and last figures volition beryllium released to the nationalist aft the cognition is implicit and elaborate investigations person been carried out.

The origin of the incidental is nether investigation.

With astir 17,000 casualties annually, Iran is among the countries astir affected by roadworthy and thoroughfare accidents. The precocious toll is attributed to lax exertion of information measures, the wide usage of aged vehicles and depleted exigency services.