The driver lost control while driving the bus at high speed in wet weather and it overturned, a police official was quoted as saying by state radio.
It was travelling between Izeh and Lordegan, about 500km (310 miles) south-west of the capital Tehran.
Iran has one of the worst road safety records in the world.
Road traffic accidents kill nearly 28,000 people and injure or disable 300,000 people a year in Iran, a country of 75 million people, according to statistics from Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund.
Road accidents occur at a rate 20 times higher than the world average in Iran, Unicef said.
The number of people who survived the crash was put variously at 12 and 14.
The injured were being treated in nearby hospitals, the Fars news agency reports.
Saturday 20 October 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20014662
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