Supreme Leader offers condolences over death of 26 schoolgirls in bus crush

TEHRAN,Oct.22(MNA) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei issued a message on Saturday expressing condolences to the families of the victims of a bus crash that claimed the lives of 26 schoolgirls in southwest Iran on Friday night. The bus transporting the schoolgirls overturned on the Izeh-Lordegan road, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) southwest of Tehran. Nineteen students were also injured in the accident.