A bus crash in Afghanistan has killed at least 75 people — including 17 children — who were being sent back from nearby Iran, a local official said.

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.