Kabul: Five people were killed and 15 others injured in a head-on collision in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Thursday, provincial traffic police director Mohammad Tahir said.
The accident occurred in Daman district early Thursday morning when a truck collided with a passenger bus coming from the opposite direction, leaving five people dead at the scene and injuring 15 others, some of them critically, the official said, without providing further details, Xinhua News Agency reported.
On September 23, eight commuters were killed, and four others sustained injuries in a road accident in northern Afghanistan’s Takhar province on Wednesday, a local police official reported.
The fatal incident occurred in the Gazestan region, Kalafgan district, after a vehicle veered off the road and overturned, killing eight travellers on the spot and injuring four others, said Naqibullah Masroor, the provincial police spokesman.
The injured have been shifted to the provincial hospital of Takhar, said Masroor, adding that the cause of the incident remains under investigation.
On September 22, one traveller was killed and nine others injured after a mini-bus plunged into a ravine in eastern Afghanistan’s Laghman province, said Mohammad Yunus Yusufzai, a spokesperson for the provincial police.
The deadly accident took place in Padpakh District on Tuesday morning, the official said, adding that police personnel rushed to the site of the accident and transferred the injured to a hospital in the provincial capital Mehtarlam.
The official did not provide further details but said that an investigation had been initiated into the accident.
On September 20, four people from the same family were killed, and the driver was injured after their vehicle slammed into a tree in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, a local police official said.
The mishap occurred in Bati Kot district when the vehicle, travelling at high speed, veered off the road and struck a tree due to reckless driving, killing the four on the spot and injuring the driver, said Sayed Tayeb Hamad, the provincial police spokesman.
(IANS)
