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Bus, fuel truck crash inferno kills 22
TWENTY-two university students were killed in a fire when their bus collided with a vehicle transporting fuel in western Iran. The bus, which was taking the male students back home to the northeastern city of Mashhad, crashed with the heavy goods vehicle yesterday evening on a road between Khuzestan and Lorestan provinces, the official IRNA news agency reported.According to the student news agency ISNA, the local police said the reason of the accident was "the speeding of the sleepy driver driving the fuel vehicle''. Seven people were injured. Iran's roads are among the most dangerous in the world. At least 100,000 people in the country of 70m have died in road accidents over the past five years. Posted by: tipper 2008-03-16 |
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