NCRI – A horrific bus crash has left 14 passengers burned alive on a road between the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Isfahan.
The tragedy happened after the bus collided with a ten-tonne lorry and burst into flames on May 2, the state-run Fars news agency has reported.
The blaze said so quickly that the passengers could not escape the vehicle and all were killed, police said.
The victims were so badly burned that bodies can no longer be identified, it was reported.
It is the latest in a series of appalling road accidents and comes after 26 female high school students died in a passenger bus smash in south-western Iran in October.
Road traffic accidents kill nearly 28,000 people and injure or disable 300,000 people a year in Iran, which has a population of around 75 million.
World Health Organization figures show Iran has the fifth highest level of road deaths out of 25 countries in the survey, and the figure is worsening every year.
