TEHRAN, September 1 - 12 school girls were killed and nearly 30 were wounded after a bus carrying high school students overturned in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Nader Rahmani, a senior traffic police official, said the bus carrying 45 mostly junior high school students was heading from Bandar Abbas to the city of Shiraz in Fars Province.
Aound 13 of those injured are in critical condition, reports said.
The girls were planning to attend a national conference of talented students in the city of Shiraz.
Initial investigations indicate the crash was caused by the exhaustion and sleepiness of the bus driver, according to the official.