A fuel tanker explosion in west Iran kills 11 and injures 7 — SkimNews
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- A fuel tanker exploded in western Iran, killing 11 people and injuring seven others, with state news agency IRNA reporting the incident late Saturday.
- IRNA reported the tanker hit other cars before bursting into flames near a traffic police station, citing a faulty brake system as the cause.
- Sanandaj, the Kurdish city where the blast occurred, sits approximately 400 kilometers (248 miles) west of the capital Tehran.
- The injured were transferred to hospitals following the explosion, though the article does not specify their conditions.
- A 2018 accident between a fuel tanker and an intercity passenger bus near Sanandaj killed 15 people and injured four.
- Iran's roads kill more than 17,000 people annually, a toll experts attribute to unsafe vehicles, disregard for traffic rules, and inadequate emergency services.
Why it matters: The Sanandaj blast is the second deadly tanker crash to strike the same Kurdish city in seven years — 15 died in a similar 2018 incident — yet Iran still loses more than 17,000 people annually to road accidents that experts link to unsafe vehicles and weak emergency infrastructure, indicating systemic vehicle and enforcement failures remain unaddressed.
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