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Schoolgirls killed in bus accident

A BUS has overturned in southwestern Iran, killing 26 female high school students on board.

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Eighteen others were injured when the bus, carrying students from the town of Borujen, flipped on the Izeh-Lordegan road, about 435 miles southwest of the capital Tehran.

Road traffic accidents kill nearly 28,000 people and injure or disable a further 300,000 every year in Iran, a country of 75 million people, according to statistics from Unicef. The figures suggest road accidents occur at a rate 20 times higher in Iran than the global average.

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