Writethru: 24 Iranian students die in bus overturn accident

Twenty-four Iranian students were killed on Saturday in a tour bus overturn accident on a highway in northern Iran, the state radio reported.

According to the report, the students were in the bus heading to Iran's religious city of Mashad, some 1,000 km northeast of Iranian capital Tehran.

The cause of the accident was not immediately attainable.

Source: Xinhua