The crash of a pick-up into the wall of the British Embassy compound in Tehran last night had been an accident, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said on Tuesday. He told IRNA that the pick-up went into the wall after it slid due to the rainy surface of the street so it had been an accident by nature. He regretted that the vehicle's driver was killed instantly due to the ignition of his bomb belt outbreak of fire. The driver, carrying two large barrels of fuel oil in the open back of the vehicle, was killed instantly by the fire. Asefi said that the Foreign Ministry acknowledged the British Ambassador to Tehran of the nature of the accident soon after the crash. |