Five killed, 15 injured as truck and bus collide head-on in Afghanistan's Kandahar
Five people died on the spot and 15 were hurt when a truck hit an oncoming bus in Daman district on Thursday morning, police said.
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A serious road accident occurred on Thursday morning in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. According to Mohammad Tahir, the provincial traffic police director, the accident took place in Daman district, where a truck rammed into an oncoming bus. Several people lost their lives in the collision.
Five people died on the spot in the head-on collision between the truck and the bus, while 15 were injured. Some of the injured are in critical condition. The accident has once again brought into focus the danger on Afghanistan's roads.
Earlier, on September 23, a similar accident occurred in Takhar province in northern Afghanistan. Eight passengers were killed and four were injured in that crash. Naqibullah Masoor, spokesperson for the Takhar police, said a vehicle skidded off the road and overturned in the Gazistan area of Kalafgan district, killing eight people on the spot. The injured were admitted to a hospital in Takhar province. Officials said an investigation into the causes of the accident was under way.
Before that, on September 22, an accident took place in Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan. One passenger was killed and nine were injured when a minibus fell into a deep gorge. Mohammad Yunus Yusufzai, the Laghman police spokesperson, said the accident occurred on Tuesday morning in Padpakh district. After the accident, police reached the spot and immediately took the injured to a hospital in the provincial capital, Mehtarlam.
Also, on September 20, four members of one family were killed in an accident in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan. According to police spokesperson Syed Tayyib Hamad, the driver of a speeding vehicle drove recklessly in Bati Kot district and the vehicle hit a roadside tree. The four people in the vehicle died on the spot, while the driver was injured.
Accidents have thus been recorded one after another in Kandahar, Takhar, Laghman and Nangarhar provinces. The string of road accidents has once again highlighted the problems of road safety, speed limits and reckless driving in Afghanistan.
