Children among dead after bus carrying Afghans deported from Iran crashed and caught fire in Herat province
Children among dead after bus carrying Afghans deported from Iran crashed and caught fire in Herat province
Seventy-eight people have died in western Afghanistan in a collision between a bus carrying Afghans who had recently been deported from Iran and two other vehicles.
The bus hit a motorcycle and a truck transporting fuel on Tuesday night, causing an explosive fire in Guzara district, Herat province. Two of the three survivors later died of their injuries, officials said on Wednesday.
Seventeen children were killed, according to the army spokesperson Mujeebullah Ansar, though a provincial police source put the number at 19. Many of the bodies were unidentifiable, said Mohammad Janan Moqadas, a chief physician at the military hospital.
“There was a lot of fire … There was a lot of screaming but we couldn’t even get within 50 metres to rescue anyone,” Akbar Tawakoli, a witness, said.
