TEHRAN, May 20 – One person was killed and 24 others injured in two road incidents in Iran, the country’s IRIB news agency reported Tuesday.
Three police officers, all members of the highway patrol, were stationed on the northern shoulder of an intercity highway in northern Alborz province on Monday night, when a pickup truck veered off the lane due to the driver’s “carelessness and drowsiness” and crashed into them, said an IRIB report.
The three were all severely injured and immediately transferred to the hospital, and one of them, identified as Ali-Akbar Sijani, succumbed to his wounds despite efforts by the medical staff, the report added.
Later, a passenger bus carrying five Iranians and 37 Afghan nationals, which was en route to Iran’s southeastern border in Sistan and Baluchestan province, overturned early Tuesday on an intercity road in southeastern Kerman province and left 22 injured, IRIB said in a separate report.
Two of the injured were transferred to the hospital, and the rest received primary medical care at the scene, it noted, without specifying the cause of the incident.
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