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At least one person lost their life and 19 others were injured on Friday when a minibus veered off the road and plunged into a valley in Iran’s northeastern Khorasan Razavi province.
The minibus was carrying 20 mountain climbers when it veered off the road and fell into the valley, which was located near Farizi village in Golbahar County, said Amanollah Khedmatgozar, mayor of the county, The Caspian Post reports, citing Xinhua.
Khedmatgozar said that the injured had been transferred to nearby medical centers, adding initial investigations showed that the driver's failure to control the minibus was among the causes of the incident.
Khorasan Razavi province is a mountainous region in Iran with several peaks popular for climbing.
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