At least 17 children among 76 people dead after horror crash left a bus on fire after colliding with truck and motorbike
The bus burst into flames after colliding with the smaller vehicles in Afghanistan's Herat province on Tuesday night.
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Local government spokesman Ahmadullah Muttaqi said the bus was carrying refugees back from Iran.
Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, spokesman for the Herat provincial government, said: "Seventy-six citizens of the country [...] lost their lives in the incident, and three others were seriously injured."
Police in the Guzara district, outside Herat city, said the truck had been carrying fuel - which caused the catastrophic fire.
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