A passenger train partially derails near the desert city of Tabas in eastern Iran, June 8, 2022. /AFP
A passenger train partially derails near the desert city of Tabas in eastern Iran, June 8, 2022. /AFP
At least 21 people have died and 50 more were injured on Wednesday morning after a passenger train derailed and crashed into an excavator in Tabas, eastern Iran, IRNA reported.
Around 350 passengers were on board at the time of the accident.
The exact cause of the accident was not immediately known.