{"id":14159,"date":"2025-07-19T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14159"},"modified":"2025-07-19T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:04:02","slug":"deadly-bus-accident-in-iran-leaves-21-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14159","title":{"rendered":"Deadly bus accident in Iran leaves 21 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least 21 people were killed and several others injured after a bus overturned south of Shiraz in Iran\u2019s Fars province, state media reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The accident, the cause of which remains unclear, occurred near Kavar, a town about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from the capital, Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, 21 deaths have been recorded,\u201d Kavar Hospital director Mohsen Afrasiabi told state television, adding that 29 people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:\u00a0At least 30 injured as vehicle ploughs into crowd outside LA club<\/p>\n<p>Masoud Abed, head of the province\u2019s emergency organisation, said rescue operations are ongoing and final casualty figures will be released after investigations are completed.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian media showed images of a coach lying on its side on a mountain road.<\/p>\n<p>Iran records nearly 17,000 road accident casualties annually, a toll attributed to lax enforcement of safety regulations, the widespread use of aging vehicles, and strained emergency services.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 21 people were killed and several others injured after a bus overturned south of Shiraz in Iran\u2019s Fars province, state media reported on Saturday. The accident, the cause of which remains unclear, occurred near Kavar, a town about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from the capital, Tehran. \u201cUnfortunately, 21 deaths have been recorded,\u201d Kavar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}