In pictures: Syria road crash kills 32, injures 77

A break failure caused a tanker to crash into 15 vehicles and two large buses

Last updated: March 09, 2020 | 11:13

AFP and Compiled by Balaram Menon, Senior Digital Content Producer

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At least 32 people died Saturday after a fuel tanker crashed into two buses and several other vehicles on a road connecting the Syrian capital to Homs province.

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A break failure caused the tanker to crash into 15 vehicles and two large buses carrying several Iraqi passengers, said Interior Minister Mohammed Khaled Al Rahmoun, while inspecting the site of the accident outside Damascus.

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The fuel tanker that collided with a passenger bus. | Victims of the crash are believed to include Shiite Iraqi pilgrims visiting holy shrines near the capital.

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A wrecked passenger bus after it reportedly collided with a fuel tanker on a road connecting the Syrian capital Damascus to Homs province.

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The wreckage of vehicles at the scene of a reported collision with a fuel tanker on a road connecting the Syrian capital Damascus to Homs province.

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A wrecked passenger bus after it reportedly collided with a fuel tanker on a road connecting the Syrian capital Damascus to Homs province.

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A wrecked passenger bus after it reportedly collided with a fuel tanker on a road connecting the Syrian capital Damascus to Homs province.

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Security forces and onlookers watching the removal of a wrecked passenger bus after it reportedly collided with a fuel tanker on a road connecting the Syrian capital Damascus to Homs province.

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A crane working at the site of an accident where a fuel tanker collided with two passenger buses and several other cars on the Damascus-Homs road near the capital Damascus.

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