Afghanistan bus crash toll rises to 78

Seventeen children were among those killed, an army spokesman said

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The death toll from a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants returning from Iran and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan has risen to 78, provincial officials said yesterday.

Seventy-six people died in the accident in Herat province’s Guzara district on Tuesday night when the passenger bus hit a motorcycle and a truck transporting fuel, causing an explosive fire, officials and eyewitnesses said.

Bodies unidentifiable

Two of the three survivors later died of their injuries, officials said yesterday.