At least 25 people died and 27 were injured when a bus overturned in East Afghanistan on Wednesday, authorities said. AFPA week after the most fatal road accident in years.
The accident occurred “due to the negligence of the driver” on a road near the capital, Kabul, which led to the southern city of Kandahar, said Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani.
Qani said 25 people were killed and 27 were treated in hospitals for injuries, whose scope was not specified.
Mortal traffic accidents are common in Afghanistan, due in part to poor roads after decades of conflict, driving dangerously on roads and lack of regulation.
Last Tuesday, 78 people, including more than a dozen children, were killed in the province of western Herat when a bus carrying migrants returning from Iran collided with a motorcycle and a truck, according to the authorities.
In December last year, two bus accidents that involved a fuel oil tanker and a road truck through the center of Afghanistan killed at least 52.
