MNA � Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed sympathy for the deaths of several female high-school students who lost their lives in a tragic bus crash in southern Iran.


�It was a source of deep sorrow and grief to hear the sad news of the bus crash in which many of our dear students and children and the country�s scientific assets were killed and wounded,� Zarif said in his Saturday message.

�I offer my condolences to the bereaved families of these dear students and the people of Hormozgan province, and deeply sympathize with them,� he added.

The Iranian top diplomat also wished patience and blessing for the victims� families and speedy recovery for those wounded in the painful incident.

A bus carrying high school students overturned in Iran�s southern Hormozgan province, leaving at least nine people, including seven school girls, dead and some 30 others wounded.�The elite schoolgirls were planning to attend a national conference of talented students in the city of Shiraz.

People in Hormozgan observed a day of mourning on Saturday after their fellow citizens lost their lives in a bus crash.