By IINA,
Tehran : Twenty-one people were killed and 11 injured when a bus collided with an oncoming truck in western Iran. The accident took place around midday (0730 GMT) yesterday between the towns of Hamedan and Malayer, the Iranian Etemad newspaper reported. It said the bus had been speeding at the time of the collision and that the truck had been overtaking illegally.
At least 100,000 people have been killed in road traffic accidents over the past five years in a country of some 70 million people.