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Iran truck accident kills 30 Afghans
0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008
TEHRAN (AFP) — At least 30 Afghans were killed and 83 injured when a truck overturned in southern Iran on Thursday, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Local medical official Mohammad Ali Ghanaat Pisheh told the news agency that the casualties were among a total of 125 Afghan illegal immigrants travelling in the 10-wheeler.
The cause of the early morning accident in the village of Khiareh in Fars province was still under investigation, he added.
According to state radio, two trucks were travelling together carrying Afghan nationals, but only one of them was involved in the accident.
The Afghan nationals had illegally crossed Iran's southeastern borders to make a living mainly by working on construction sites.
Each of the Afghans had paid...
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