At least 20 passengers were killed and 11 other injured when a bus plunged into a river on Sanandaj-Saqez road in the western Kurdestan province of Iran on Saturday night, IRNA reported from Sanandaj.

Police blamed the accident on the recklessness of the driver. The injured, some of them said to be in critical condition, had been rushed to a hospital in the city of Sanandaj for treatment.