Accidents & Disasters

The body of a child who drowned in the river in central Panjsher was recovered on Thursday morning, a police official said.

Following multiple drowning incidents in the Pashtan Dam, the governor of western Herat province has instructed relevant officials to ensure that all necessary safety measures are implemented with immediate effect to protect the lives of citizens.

A Polish tourist was injured in a traffic accident in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Monday.

At least nine people were killed and 31 others injured after a passenger bus overturned and fell into a ditch in the Chakwal district of Punjab province on Sunday, according to media reports.

One person was killed and six others were injured as a result of a traffic accident in northern Faryab province, an official said on Sunday.

A driver of a UN vehicle has been arrested over a traffic accident that resulted in the death of two children in western Ghor province, an official said on Thursday, but the UN mission in Afghanistan has not yet commented in this regard.

One individual has been killed and five others injured as a result of traffic accident in southeastern Khost province, an official said on Thursday.

Six individuals have been killed and 18 others injured as a result of a coalmine collapse in Karkar area of northern Baghlan province, police said on Wednesday.

A man died in a traffic accident in the capital of northern Jawzjan province on Saturday.

Nearly a dozen people have been killed and four others wounded in a traffic accident on the Kabul-Herat highway in southern Helmand province, police said on Wednesday.

FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Five members of a family, including bride and groom, were killed in a traffic accident Tashkan district of northwestern Badakhshan province, police said on Friday.

Two laborers have been killed after a wall collapsed in Jalalabad City, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province.