{"id":61940,"date":"2026-09-05T19:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/fuel-tanker-blast-in-western-iran-kills-at-least-10\/05\/09\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T19:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:35:46","slug":"fuel-tanker-blast-in-western-iran-kills-at-least-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/fuel-tanker-blast-in-western-iran-kills-at-least-10\/05\/09\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel tanker blast in western Iran kills at least 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\" data-body-type=\"bodyblocks\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least 10 people were killed in a fuel tanker blast in western Iran, Iranian national broadcast media (IRIB) reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The tanker explosion on Saturday was triggered by a road crash on the Hamedan-Sanandaj highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The accident was caused by a technical fault in the braking system of the vehicle carrying the tanker, said the governor of Sanandaj, the capital of Iran&#8217;s Kurdistan province, as reported by the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least six other people were injured in the incident, the governor also said, adding that casualty figures were based on initial reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to local officials, the resulting fire was immediately brought under control. They did not provide further details on the identities of those killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The latest deadly accident adds to a long history of deadly tanker and bus collisions in Iran, where poor road conditions, ageing vehicle fleets and heavy freight traffic have made such accidents a recurring hazard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least 13 people were killed in 2018, after a <!-- -->fuel tanker slammed into a bus<!-- --> that had stopped to pick up passengers near Sanandaj.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">UNICEF said Iran&#8217;s rate of traffic crashes is 20 times the world&#8217;s average, as the country suffers from poor roads and lax traffic enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to a May 2017 report by the Tehran-based newspaper Financial Tribune, more than 20,000 people are killed and 800,000 are injured annually in road accidents in Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world\/articles\/fuel-tanker-blast-western-iran-230748006.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 10 people were killed in a fuel tanker blast in western Iran, Iranian national broadcast media (IRIB) reported. 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