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15 killed, 25 injured in S. Afghan road crash
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 8, 2018 (BSS/XINHUA) – At least 15 people were
killed and 25 others injured after a long-distance bus collided with a truck
in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar on Saturday, said an official.
The accident occurred roughly at 06:00 a.m. local time when a head-on
passenger bus collided with a running cargo truck along Kabul-Herat roadway
in Hawz-e-Madad area of Zhari district, provincial governor spokesman Aziz
Ahmad Azizi told Xinhua.
“Those among the killed were three women and three children, and three
women and a child were among the injured,” he added.
The injured were shifted to a main hospital in provincial capital of
Kandahar city, east of Zhari.
Road mishaps are frequent in the mountainous country and occur mostly due
to poor road condition and reckless driving.
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