At least nine people were killed on Monday when a bus collided with a fuel truck in Iran's southeast, state media reported, the second mass casualty road accident within days.
Mohammad Mehdi Sajjadi, head of the Red Crescent Society in Sistan-Baluchestan province, told the official IRNA news agency that "nine people lost their lives and 13 others were injured in the accident in which a bus collided with a fuel truck near Zahedan".
On Saturday, 10 people were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine in Iran's western Lorestan province. In August, 28 Pakistani Muslim pilgrims en route to Iraq were killed when their bus crashed in central Iran. AFP
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