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, officials say.

A bus crash in northwestern Afghanistan killed at least 79 people returning from Iran, including 19 children, an official said. Two people were also injured in the crash, Ministry of Interior spokesperson Abdul Mateen Qani told The Associated Press.

A traffic accident in western Afghanistan has killed 79 people, including 17 children, most of whom were on a bus carrying Afghan migrants deported from Iran, a Taliban interior ministry spokesperson confirmed to the BBC. The bus, en route to Kabul, caught fire on Tuesday night after colliding with a truck and motorcycle in Herat province.