TWENTY-ONE people were killed and 38 injured on Sunday in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province when a bus collided with an oil tanker and a motorbike, provincial officials said. Deadly traffic accidents are common in the country, due in part to poor roads, dangerous driving on highwaysand a lack of regulation.
“On Sunday morning, 21 people were killed and 38 people were injured due to a collision between a tanker, a motorcycle and a passenger bus,” the provincial information department said in a post on X.
The accident took place on the Herat-Kandahar highway in Grishk district of Helmand province, it added.
The collision caused the vehicles to ignite, Helmand governor spokesman Mohammad Qasim Riyaz told
AFP. Images shared by the information department on social media showed charred, twisted metal scattered across the highway and the crushed cabin of the tanker. An investigation into the accident was under way, said Qadratullah, a traffic official in Helmand.
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