Fuel tanker blast in western Iran kills at least 10

At least six other people were injured in the tanker blast on Iran’s Hamedan-Sanandaj highway, officials say.

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At least 10 people were killed in a fuel tanker blast in western Iran, Iranian national broadcast media (IRIB) reported.

The tanker explosion on Saturday was triggered by a road crash on the Hamedan-Sanandaj highway.

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The accident was caused by a technical fault in the braking system of the vehicle carrying the tanker, said the governor of Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, as reported by the Reuters news agency.

At least six other people were injured in the incident, the governor also said, adding that casualty figures were based on initial reports.

According to local officials, the resulting fire was immediately brought under control. They did not provide further details on the identities of those killed.

The latest deadly accident adds to a long history of deadly tanker and bus collisions in Iran, where poor road conditions, ageing vehicle fleets and heavy freight traffic have made such accidents a recurring hazard.

At least 13 people were killed in 2018, after a fuel tanker slammed into a bus that had stopped to pick up passengers near Sanandaj.

UNICEF said Iran’s rate of traffic crashes is 20 times the world’s average, as the country suffers from poor roads and lax traffic enforcement.

According to a May 2017 report by the Tehran-based newspaper Financial Tribune, more than 20,000 people are killed and 800,000 are injured annually in road accidents in Iran.

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据路透社报道，伊朗库尔德斯坦省首府萨南达季省长表示，事故是由运送油罐车的车辆制动系统出现技术故障造成的。

州长还表示，至少还有六人在事件中受伤，并补充说伤亡人数是根据初步报告统计的。

据当地官员称，火势很快得到控制。他们没有提供遇难者身份的更多细节。

最新发生的这起致命事故，使伊朗长期以来发生的致命油罐车和公共汽车碰撞事故雪上加霜。在伊朗，糟糕的道路状况、老化的车辆以及繁忙的货运交通，使得此类事故成为反复出现的危险。

2018 年，一辆油罐车在萨南达季附近撞上一辆停下来接客的巴士，造成至少 13 人死亡。

联合国儿童基金会表示，伊朗的交通事故发生率是世界平均水平的 20 倍，因为该国道路状况差，交通执法不力。

据德黑兰报纸《金融论坛报》2017 年 5 月的报道，伊朗每年有超过 2 万人死于道路交通事故，另有 80 万人受伤。