A minimum of 24 commuters have been injured as a passenger bus collided with a truck in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province on Thursday evening, provincial police spokesman Mawlawi Shir Ahmad Burhani stated Friday.
The mishap occurred on a street linking the capital metropolis of Kabul to the northern Mazar-i-Sharif metropolis, leaving 24 travellers injured, some in essential situation, the official added, saying all of the injured had been shifted to a hospital within the provincial capital, Pul-e-Khumri metropolis, Xinhua Information Company reported.
That is the second incident of its sort over the previous couple of days. A earlier accident occurred within the western metropolis of Herat on Tuesday evening, which killed 79 folks.
Earlier this week, at the very least 64 commuters have been killed and three others sustained accidents in a lethal street mishap in western Afghanistan’s Herat province, head of the rescue division within the province, Abdul Zahir Noorzai, stated Wednesday.
The accident occurred on Tuesday evening after a passenger bus collided with a motorcycle and a mini-truck on a street linking the neighbouring Iran to Herat metropolis in Afghanistan.
Nearly all of the victims, together with ladies and youngsters, have been Afghan refugees who returned from Iran to settle of their homeland, Afghanistan, in line with the official.
Within the meantime, one other official, on the situation of anonymity, stated that the passenger bus caught fireplace and lots of our bodies couldn’t be recognised.
The variety of the victims, in line with the official, may go up as the gathering of data continues.
In an analogous incident on July 31, one particular person was killed and 14 others injured after their automobile veered off the street and turned turtle in central Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province, the state-owned Bakhtar Information Company reported.
The mishap occurred within the Kotal Bukak space of Yakawlang district, the place a mini-bus overturned because of a technical fault, killing one traveller on the spot and injuring 14 others, together with ladies and youngsters, Bakhtar quoted Mohammad Khawani Rasa, provincial police spokesman, as saying.
In response to Rasa, all of the injured have been transported to close by well being centres for therapy.