TEHRAN (IRNA) -- President Mahmud Ahmadinejad expressed his condolences on Friday on the demise of Justice Minister Jamal Karimi-Rad who was killed in a car accident on Thursday evening.

The president in a message expressed sympathy with the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian nation and the late minister's bereaved family as well as the Judiciary.

Karimi-Rad was killed in an accident on Tehran-Isfahan road due to bad weather. His wife and two sons were also injured in the accident.

Describing the late minister as a hard-working official, the president wished him eternal peace.