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16/03/2008 14:12  - (SA)  

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Tehran - Twenty-two university students were killed in a fire when their bus collided with a vehicle transporting fuel in western Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.

The bus, which was taking the male students back home to northeastern city of Mashhad, crashed with the heavy goods vehicle on Saturday evening on a road between Khuzestan and Lorestan provinces.

According to the student news agency ISNA, the local police said the reason of the accident was "the speeding of the sleepy and driver driving the fuel vehicle."

Seven people were injured.

Iran's roads are among the most dangerous in the world. At least 100 000 people in the country of 70 million have died in road accidents over the past five years.

- AFP

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