AT least 76 people are dead including 17 children after a horrific crash between a passenger bus, a truck and a motorbike.

The bus burst into flames after colliding with the smaller vehicles in Afghanistan’s western Herat province on Tuesday night.

Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, spokesman for the Herat provincial government, said: "Seventy-six citizens of the country [...] lost their lives in the incident, and three others were seriously injured."

He added: "All the passengers were migrants who had boarded the vehicle in Islam Qala," a town near the Iranian border.

Police in the Guzara district, outside Herat city, said the truck had been carrying fuel - which caused the catastrophic fire.

Provincial government spokesman Ahmadullah Muttaqi confirmed the bus was carrying refugees back from Ir

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