Dozens ended in two passenger bus crashes in Afghanistan | Transport News

At least 50 people ended in accidents on the same highway in Ghazni province between Kabul and southern Kandahar city.

Two bus crashes in central Afghanistan have ended at least 50 people and injured dozens more, according to officials.

The accidents took place on the same highway in Ghazni province between the capital, Kabul, and southern Kandahar city postponecessitate on Wednesday, provincial head of recommendation and culture Hamifoolishah Nisar shelp on X on Thursday.

In the first, a passenger bus collided with a fuel tanker cforfeit Shahbaz village in central Ghazni. In the other accident, a bus hit a truck in the easerious didisjoine of Andar, Nisar shelp.

Hafiz Omar, a spokesman for the handleor of Ghazni province, shelp 50 people were ended in the accidents.

Taliprohibit chief handlement spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid put the death toll at 52 and shelp 65 people were injured. Other officials shelp up to 76 people were injured.

“We lgeted with fantastic repent that two overweightal traffic accidents occurred on the Kabul-Kandahar Highway,” Mujahid shelp in a statement.

“These incidents have meaningfully disturbed and downcastdened us … We inspire the relevant authorities to carry out an instant allotigation into both incidents, remend the causes, and apshow essential actions to obstruct such tragedies in the future,” he grasped.

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Omar shelp: “The injured have been apshown to hospitals in Ghazni and authorities are in the process of handing over the bodies to families.”

Patients in a more solemn condition were transferred to Kabul, he grasped; women and children are among the casualties.

Traffic accidents are standard in Afghanistan, due in part to necessitatey roads after decades of dispute, hazardous driving on highways, and a conciseage of regulation.

In March, more than 20 people were ended and 38 injured when a bus collided with a fuel tanker and burst into ffeebles in southern Helmand province.

Another solemn accident involving a fuel tanker took place in December 2022, when the vehicle obviousurned and caught fire in Afghanistan’s high-altitude Salang Pass, ending 31 people and leaving dozens more with burns.