Deadly Crashes Claim Lives of Illegal Migrants

Traffic accidents claimed the lives of a total of 33 illegal Afghan immigrants on April 19.

The accidents, which also injured 47 people, happened over a 24-hour period. The migrants were being transported to various different locations across Iran at the time of the accidents.

“Nine illegal Afghani residents, together with their Iranian driver, died after their car collided with a truck on the Rostamabad-Bam road,” police officer Hadi Todnfekr, Kavir told Iranian Students’ News Agency. Five of the wounded were found in the trunk of the car. They were taken to Pasteur Hospital in Bam.

Shortly after the announcement, Mostafa Mortazavi, a spokesman for the Red Crescent Society, Iran’s relief agency, said 24 Afghan nationals died and 42 were injured in four other separate car accidents — on the roads from Darab to Bandar Abbas and from Minab to Bandar Abbas in Hormozgan province, the Laar-Jahrom road in Fars, and on the Sarvestan Road in Fars heading towards Sistan-Baluchistan. Mortazavi told Fars News Agency that the fatal crash in Sistan-Baluchistan happened around 9pm. Twelve people died and 17 were wounded.

According to Mortazvi, the Minab-Bandar Abbas road accident claimed the lives of 11 Afghans; five were injured. 

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