Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 23 Some 70 holidaymakers have been killed in road accidents in Iran since the Persian New Year which began on March 20, a senior state security official announced. Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Mar. 23 Some 70 holidaymakers have been killed in road accidents in Iran since the Persian New Year which began on March 20, a senior state security official announced.
In the first three days of the current year, 70 people died in road accidents in the country, said Colonel Hadi Hashemi, a deputy chief of police in the Iranian capital Tehran. His remarks were carried by the government-run news agency Fars on Saturday.
Iran’s highways are considered to be among the most dangerous in the world, with some 100,000 road-accident deaths occurring in the last five years, the equivalent of three deaths an hour.
