Two bus accidents in Afghanistan leave dozens dead and dozens injured Blogging Sole

Two road accidents in southeastern Afghanistan killed a total of 50 people and injured 76, a government spokesperson said Thursday.

One of them was a collision between a bus and an oil tanker on the Kabul-Kandahar highway on Wednesday evening, said Hafiz Omar, spokesperson for the governor of Ghazni province.

The other, also late Wednesday and in the same province, was in a different area of ​​the same highway that connects the Afghan capital to the south.

Hamidullah Nisar, provincial head of the Taliban-run Department of Information and Culture, told the Reuters news agency that the other accident involved a truck, adding that some of those injured in both collisions were in a critical condition.

Omar said many injured people were taken to hospitals in Ghazni and patients in more serious condition were transferred to Kabul. Women and children were among the victims, he said.

Authorities were in the process of handing over the bodies to the families, Omar said.

Abdullah Khan, a survivor of the crash and being treated at a hospital in Ghazni, said he did not know how many people were dead or injured.

“I got off the bus myself and heard moaning. There was blood everywhere. Some people were injured in the head and others in the legs.

Road accidents are common in Afghanistan, mainly due to poor road conditions and driver negligence.