A bus carrying Afghans recently deported from Iran crashed and burst into flames Tuesday, killing dozens of men, women and children.

Seventy-six people were killed in a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants just deported by Iran and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan, a provincial official said Wednesday.

More than 70 Afghans, many of whom had recently been deported from Iran , died in a tragic accident in western Afghanistan on Wednesday. Out of the 78 killed in the accident, 71 were traveling back to Afghanistan after being expelled or forcibly removed from Iran, a Taliban interior ministry spokesperson told media.