Officials say the bus accident kills dozens of immigrants in Afghanistan after Iran has deported them.

A boycott official said on Wednesday that seventy -six were killed in a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants and two other cars in western Afghanistan.

“He lost seventy -six citizens in the country … their lives in the accident, and three others were seriously injured,” Mohamed Youssef Saidi, a spokesman for the Hirat government, spokesman for the Hirat County Government, said in a statement.

A spokesman for the provincial government, Ahda Allah, said to a Reuters news agency that the dead included at least 17 children.

The police in the Josara area outside the city of Hirat, where the accident occurred on Tuesday night, that the bus collided with a motorcycle and a truck carrying fuel, which caused a fire.

Saeed told France Book, Muttaqi also said they were deported by Tehran.

At least 1.5 million people have returned to Afghanistan since the beginning of this year from Iran and Pakistan, both of whom have sought to force immigrants to leave after decades of hosting them, according to the United Nations Immigration Agency.

The state -run news agency Bakhtar said on Tuesday, which was one of the most intense brains in Afghanistan in recent years.

Traffic accidents are common in Afghanistan, partly due to poor roads after decades of conflict, dangerous driving on highways and non -organization.

In December, Two buses buses The involvement of a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway across the center of Afghanistan killed at least 52.