19 killed in traffic accident in southern Iran

 TEHRAN, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- A traffic accident on Sunday morning in southern Iran has claimed the lives of 19 people, the official IRNA news agency.

A passenger bus hit a rock and turned over on Shiraz-Kazeroon road, some 50 km from Shiraz, the provincial¹ capital of Fars, said IRNA.

The driver and 18 passengers were killed while 25 others were injured. The injured were transferred to a hospital in Shiraz, the report said.

Overspeed was the cause of the accident, Ahmad Ahmadi, a local traffic police officer, was quoted as saying.

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adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
• Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。