A bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims overturned in Iran, killing at the very least 28 passengers, Iranian state media report.
The crash occurred on Tuesday evening within the central Iranian province of Yazd and was on account of a faulty braking system, Reuters reported, citing a preliminary police investigation.
One other 23 passengers had been injured, seven of them critically, the province’s disaster administration director advised state TV.
The pilgrims had been on their approach to Iraq’s holy metropolis of Karbala to commemorate one of many greatest occasions within the Shia calendar.
Some 53 persons are believed to have been on the bus on the time of the crash, as reported by Pakistan’s Daybreak Information, together with pilgrims from Larkana, Ghotki and cities in Sindh.
Eleven ladies and 17 males are amongst those that died within the crash, in keeping with the disaster administration director.
The bus caught fireplace in entrance of Dehshir-Taft checkpoint in Iran, round 681km (423 miles) south of the capital Tehran, in keeping with experiences by native media.
The pilgrimage, often called Arbaeen, marks the top of a interval of 40 days of mourning for Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.
Some two million Shia Muslim pilgrims are at present collaborating.
Iran is infamous for its poor visitors security document, with some 20,000 deaths yearly on account of accidents.