TEHRAN, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a bus incident in Iran's western Ilam province Saturday evening has risen to 10, with 18 others injured, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
The incident occurred at 7:25 p.m. local time (1555 GMT) as the bus overturned on the road from Dasht-e Abbas in Dehloran County to Murmuri in Abdanan County, carrying the employees of a petroleum refinery company based in Dehloran, the report said.
It quoted Mehdi Shabani, head of the emergency medical services department of Ilam University of Medical Sciences, as saying that immediately after the incident was reported, operational teams as well as 10 ambulances and one ambulance bus were sent to the scene.
He added the wounded were transferred to hospitals in Ilam and the neighboring Khuzestan province, noting that a number of them were in critical condition.
According to Fars, the cause of the incident will be announced by the relevant authorities. ■
