Nine people were burnt to death on Thursday when a car crammed with illegal immigrants collided with another car loaded with smuggled fuel in southeast Iran, Fars news agency reported. “This morning, fuel- and human-smuggling saw nine people scorched to death in the blaze,” local fire department chief Ebrahim Dakali said, referring to the crash on a road in Sistan-Baluchestan province. “A Peugeot vehicle was carrying illegal foreign nationals, seven of whom burned to death” in the crash, along with the two passengers of the other car, he added. Dakali said five others in the Peugeot were injured and had been taken to hospital.