Horror as 76 dead including 17 children in fatal bus crash inferno | World | News

A terrible accident with a passenger bus, truck and motorcycle died at least 76 people – 17 children. The vehicles exploded into the flames after colliding in West Herat, Afghanistan on Tuesday night.

It is reported that everyone on the bus and the other two people traveling on other vehicles are reported to have died. Passengers on the bus were refugees returning from Iran after being deported from the country. The photos of the accident area are completely burned and almost beyond recognition, showing the shocking consequences of the accident.

“Seventy -six citizens of the country died in the incident and all three were seriously injured,” Herat Provincial Government Spokesman Mohammad Yosuf Saeedi said.

“All passengers were immigrants in Qala, a town close to the Iranian border.”

Police said the truck carries fuel that caused a subsequent disaster fire.

The dead bodies were taken to a military hospital for storage as the painful process of identifying victims began. However, Mohammad Janan Moqadas, the chief doctor of the Al-Farooq Army Corps Hospital, said that most of the bodies were “indescribable”.

Herat police, AFP agency, said that the bus driver was caused by “excessive speed and negligence”.

According to the UN Migration Agency, up to 1.5 million Afghan refugees from Iran and Pakistan since the beginning of the year have been sent back.

Both countries have been hosting Afghan refugees for decades, but they started to fire them collectively.

A tragic accident was a day after Tehran announced that 800,000 people had to leave the country until next March.

The Bakhtar News Agency, operated by the state, reported that the horror accident has been described as one of the most deadly in Afghanistan in recent years.

Accidents are largely common due to the bad state of roads after years of war and civil war.