A passenger bus overturned in northern Iran on Saturday, killing at least 16 people. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
TEHRAN, July 23 (Xinhua) -- A passenger bus overturned in northern Iran on Saturday, killing at least 16 people, private Tasnim news agency reported.
The bus hit a power pole on Karaj-Chalus Road and overturned in the early hours of Saturday morning, the managing director of Iran's Red Crescent Society in Alborz province, Ehsan Nasiri, told Tasnim.
The accident also left 12 others injured, Nasiri was quoted as saying, without specifying the actual cause.
Official figures show more than 20,000 people died and two million others wounded in traffic accidents per year in Iran. Inexperienced drivers, inefficient cars and risky roads are blamed for causing them.
