Accidents and disaster stories happening in Afghanistan
Four people have been killed in a traffic accident on the Kandahar–Spin Boldakhighway in the Tor Kotal area of Takhta Pul district, an official said on Wednesday. Mullah Asadullah Jamshid, spokesman for the Kandahar police, told Pajhwok Afghan…
At least 12 people have been killed and around 24 others wounded in a collision between two buses on the Quetta–Karachi highway in Balochistan, a media report said on Saturday. A passenger coach and a minibus collided in…
Four people, including two women and two children, were killed and another was injured when a vehicle plunged into a ravine on the outskirts of Qala-i-Naw, the capital of western Badghis province, on Monday, police said.
Four people have died and two children remain missing after a vehicle plunged into a river in Shinwari district of central Parwan province, police said on Thursday.
Five people were killed and 16 others injured when an 805-model bus collided with a trailer in Daman district of southern Kandahar province on Thursday.
Two Afghan workers have died after inhaling toxic gas while digging a well in southern Iran, a media report said.
A 45-year-old man shot dead eight people, including a pregnant woman and two children, in Erie, Pennsylvania, before apparently killing himself, authorities said on Saturday.
One person was killed and five others were wounded in a traffic accident in western Herat province on Wednesday, police said. Police spokesman Syed Masoud Hussaini told Pajhwok Afghan News that the accident took place on the…
Three people were killed and three others injured in a traffic accident in Batikot district of eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday, police said.
Two people have been killed and nine others injured in two separate traffic accidents in different parts of northern Baghlan province, the provincial governor’s office said.
Two people have been killed and 13 others injured after a Suzuki vehicle overturned in Behsud district of eastern Nangarhar province, police official said. Sayed Tayyab Hamad, spokesperson for the Nangarhar Police, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the…
Three brothers have died after suffocating due to a lack of oxygen inside water well in Nashin village of Guzara district in western Herat province, the Information and Culture Directorate said.
A helicopter carrying six people crashed in Zimbabwe’s Marondera rural area, east of Harare, killing everyone on board, government spokesperson Nick Mangwana said on X.
A fire broke out at the Islam Qala port in western Herat province, prompting the provincial firefighting department to dispatch emergency crews to the scene, officials said Wednesday. Sayed Masoud Hosseini, spokesperson for the Herat Police, said firefighting…
Three people have been killed in a traffic accident in Shah Joy district of southern Zabul province, the provincial police said.
A woman was killed and 27 others injured in a traffic accident in eastern Laghman province on Monday, officials said.
A woman was killed and five others people were wounded in a traffic accident in northern Baghlan province on Wednesday, police said.
Eight people were killed and another injured in a fire at a textile factory in Foshan city in southern China, reports said on Monday.
At least seven people, including children and women, have been killed and one wounded in four separate traffic accidents in various parts of eastern Nangarhar province, police said on Sunday.
Seven Afghan migrants have been killed and nine others injured in a traffic accident in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iranian media and a human rights group reported.
Four members of a family were poisoned in central Logar province, leaving a woman dead, an official said on Saturday.
