TEHRAN, Oct. 23 (MNA) -- 11 people were killed and at least 9 injured in road accidents around the country on Friday, announced Parviz Sayah-Alborzi, deputy head of traffic police on Saturday.

Talking to reporters, he said a passenger bus crashed into a trailer on Semnan-Jandaq highway leaving 5 dead and 8 injured.

He added a passenger car also crashed into a Volvo trailer killing 3 people in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province.

Two Chinese-made trailers - Howo and Dong Feng – slammed each other which also involved a passenger car, leaving 3 members of a family dead, Sayah-Alborzi added.

On Saturday, a truck also slammed into car on Tehran-Qom road killing the car’s driver.

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