At least 71 dies in the bus accident that involves the Afghans who were deported from Iran Refugee news

Police in Hirat County in West Afghanistan said the accident was due to “excessive speed and neglect in the bus.”

At least 71 people, including 17 children, were killed in western Afghanistan after a passenger bus carrying refugees, who were recently deported from neighboring Iran, after colliding with a truck and motorcycle, according to a spokesman for the boycott government, Ahmed Allah Mukhit and the local police.

Police in Hirat County said on Tuesday that the accident was due to “excessive speed and neglect of the bus.

The returnees are part of a A huge wave of Afghans has been deported Or forced Iran in recent months.

The incident took place a day after the Iranian Interior Minister Eschlexar Momaini announced that 800,000 people will have to leave the country by March.

The boycott official, Mohamed Youssef Saidi, told the news agency to Agence France -Presse on Tuesday that the bus was carrying Afghans recently from Iran, on their way to the capital, Kabul. He added that all the passengers took the car in Islam Qala, which is the crossing point.

The chief spokesman for the Taliban government, Zabiya Allah, the Mujahideen, confirmed to the news agency in the management of the two materials that the victims had been deported from Iran, but they said that more details were not immediately available.

Police in the Josara area outside the city of Hirat, Afghanistan, where the accident occurred, said that a motorcycle was also involved.

Most of those who died were on the bus, but two people were killed in the truck, as well as two others who were on a motorcycle.

Traffic accidents are common in Afghanistan, partly due to poor roads after decades of war, dangerous driving on highways and a lack of organization.

Last December, two bus accidents were killed, two fuel tankers and a truck on a highway across the center of Afghanistan, at least 52 people.

Every year, conflict, persecution, poverty and high unemployment pay large numbers of Afghans to cross the Islamic border 300 km (186 miles) to Iran without documents. Many jobs in low -wage jobs in large cities, including construction sites, are estimated as cheap and reliable work.

almost 450,000 Afghans returned from Iran Since early June, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), after Tehran imposed the deadline on July 6 for illegal refugees to leave the country.

These existing challenges are gathered in Afghanistan, where the poor nation, under the rule of the Taliban, since 2021, is used to integrate the waves of returnees from Pakistan and Iran since 2023, amid one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world after decades of conflict.

The Commission stated that more than 1.4 million people “returned or forced to return to Afghanistan” this year alone. In late May, Iran will affect 4 million illegal Afghans out of about 6 million Afghan population demanded by Tehran.

The border crossings increased significantly from mid -June, when some days saw about 40,000 people entering Afghanistan. Between June 1 and July 5, 449,218 Afghans returned from Iran, thus reaching a total of 2024 to 906326, according to an international migration spokesman.