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, a provincial official said Wednesday.

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.

More than 70 Afghans, many of whom had recently been deported from Iran , died in a tragic accident in western Afghanistan on Wednesday. Out of the 78 killed in the accident, 71 were traveling back to Afghanistan after being expelled or forcibly removed from Iran, a Taliban interior ministry spokesperson told media.