Iranian bus overturns in Syria, 6 pilgrims killed

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - An Iranian bus carrying pilgrims from southern city of Sirjan, in Kerman province, overturned in a highway between Aleppo and Damascus on Saturday morning causing 6 persons killed and 50 wounded. 

Iran's director of Hajj and Pilgrim Organization bureau in Syria Masoud Akhavan said that wounded people, except one who is in critical condition, will be returned to Iran by plane on Sunday and bodies of the victims will be sent to Iran on Monday.

Victims of the incident are 4 men and two women and the bus driver is among the wounded.

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