Dozens of deportees from Iran killed in bus crash
A traffic accident in West Afghanistan confirmed to the BBC Pashto, killed 73 people, including 17 children, most of them carrying Afghan immigrants from Iran.
Ahmadullah Mottaqi, the Director of Information and Culture in Herat, Taliban’s Bus, a truck and motorcycle in Herat, took fire on Tuesday night after colliding with a motorcycle.
He said that two people were killed in the bus as well as everyone on the bus.
In recent months, Iran has deported the Afghan immigrants without documental escaping from the conflict in their homeland.
Provincial spokesman Mohammad Yosuf Saeedi told AFP, who referred to a town close to the Afghanistan -Iranian border, “All passengers were immigrants in Islam Qala.” He said.
AFP, Herat Police’s bus driver’s bus driver “excessive speed and negligence” said.
Traffic accidents are common in Afghanistan, where roads are damaged due to decades of conflict and driving arrangements.
Since the 1970s, millions of Afghan has fled to Iran and Pakistan, in 1979, during the occupation of Soviet Afghanistan, with great waves and after the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
This contributed to the increasing anti -Afghan idea in Iran with the face of refugees with systemic discrimination.
Iran had previously given July to voluntarily separating the Afghans without document.
However, since a short war with Israel in June, Iranian officials have forcibly returned hundreds of thousands of Afghan, who claimed national security concerns – critics say that Tehran is looking for a scapegoat for security failures against Israeli attacks.
According to the UN refugee agency, more than 1.5 million Afghan has left Iran since January. Some have been in Iran for generations.
Experts deprive Afghanistan’s capacity to absorb citizens who forcibly return to a country under the Taliban rule. The country is already struggling with a huge return from Pakistan, forcing hundreds of thousands of Afghan to leave.
