The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has expressed condolences to Iran, according to the ministry’s Twitter post.
"We are deeply saddened by the news of the death of people as a result of the crash of a passenger train. We express our deepest condolences to the families of the crash victims, as well as to all the Iranian people, and wish a speedy recovery to the injured," the ministry said.
The death toll in the crash of a passenger train which moved on Tabas-Yazd route in the South Khorasan province in the north-east of Iran, amounted to 17 people, and another 50 were injured.
