52 killed in two bus accidents in central Afghanistan
The two destroyed buses were transported to a lot in Ghazni city.
Twobusaccidentsinvolving a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway in central Afghanistan killed atleast52people and injured 68, a provincial official said Thursday (Dec 19).
Theaccidentshappened in Ghazni province on the same highway between the capital Kabul and southern Kandahar city late Wednesday, provincial head of information and culture Hamidullah Nisar said on X, without specifying how many people werekilledand injured in eachaccident.
"There is a possibility the numberscouldrise," Nisar told reporters outside a hospital in Ghazni city where victims had been sent.
He noted that some of the injured were in a "critical condition" and had been sent to Kabul for treatment. "Among the injured and dead were children, women, and elderly people," he added.
Onebuscollided with a fuel tanker near Shahbaz village in central Ghazni, while the other hit a truck in the eastern district of Andar, Nisar said.
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Chief government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid posted on X that the authorities had "great regret" over theaccidentsand that an investigation would be launched.
Teams worked to clear debris at the sites into the morning, with hunks of metal and broken glass strewn across the area in Andar along with the clothes and meals ofbuspassengers, an AFP journalist saw.
One of the injured in theaccidentin Shahbaz, Khadim, said he was jolted awake by the noise of theaccidentbut then lost consciousness.
When he came to and pulled himself from the wreck, he "saw there were a lot of people under the vehicle and on the ground around us, there was crying and blood everywhere".
Thetwodestroyed buses were transported to a lot in Ghazni city, their crushed and twisted frames and seats splattered with blood.
The vehicles "were badly damaged" and thebushad been "bashed around" said Rahim, who was at the site in Shahbaz not long after theaccident.
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"We were gathering the stuff from the site, and there were human legs, I buried them there, it was a very intenseaccident," he told AFP.
Trafficaccidentsare common inAfghanistan, due in part to poor roads after decades of conflict, dangerous driving on highways, and a lack of regulation.
In March, more than 20 people werekilledand 38 injured when abuscollided with a fuel tanker and burst into flames in southern Helmand province.
Another seriousaccidentinvolving a fuel tanker took place in December 2022, when the vehicle overturned and caught fire inAfghanistan's high-altitude Salang Pass, killing 31 people.
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