Following the overturning of a bus and the deaths of at least 12 employees and workers of NG L Dehloran Company, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran ordered that it be investigated, and the prosecutor of this county said that the cause of the incident is being pursued. The Ilam provincial governorate has also declared a period of public mourning.

According to the state news agency IRNA, the incident occurred on Saturday night, 23 Aban, on the route from Dasht Abbas Dehloran to Mormuri Abdanan, in the area of Three-Gar, near the oil wells. In addition to the fatalities, 16 passengers of this bus were also injured.

A driver at the scene told Iran’s state broadcaster (IRIB) that, “This bend has always been accident-prone.” One of the injured people also told a reporter from this Iranian TV network that, “The bus was going too fast and after the overturning it swung several times while suspended.”

NG L gas and liquefied petroleum gas complex 3100 is located in the Cheshmeh Khush area of Ilam province, 45 kilometers from Dehloran. In Mehr 1404 it was inaugurated with the aim of collecting and preventing the burning of associated gas from oil fields in the Cheshmeh Khush, Paidar Asmari West, Dehloran, Azar, and Paidar Bangestan fields, and to provide feedstock for the Dehloran petrochemical plant.