Accidents and disaster stories happening in Afghanistan
Three people were killed and three others injured when two speeding vehicles collided on the Zaranj–Delaram Highway in Zaranj city, the capital of northwestern Nimroz province. Mawlawi Gul Mohammad Qudrat, spokesperson for the Nimroz police , told Pajhwok…
A government-owned commercial market built at a cost of 54 million afghanis has been inaugurated in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, with officials saying it will help boost trade, investment and employment.
Six people have died and 107 others have been rescued after a passenger ferry capsized in Indonesia’s Java Sea, authorities said on Sunday.
The Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) has warned of possible flash floods and rising river water levels in parts of the Kabul river basin and several provinces over the next three days.
At least 26 people were injured after a 580-type bus overturned in Aliabad district of northern Kunduz province on Sunday.
Houthi forces and Saudi Arabia have exchanged strikes as fighting over the critical Bab al-Mandeb chokepoint on Yemen’s Red Sea coast continues, Al Jazeera reported.
More than 171 million students globally — or one in 10 — from pre-primary to upper-secondary level had their schooling disrupted by climate hazards in 2025, UNICEF said in a new report released on Thursday.
Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the United States sank five Iranian oil tankers, marking the biggest escalation in attacks on shipping since the start of the six-month-old war.
At least five people have been killed and 87 remain missing after a fire broke out aboard a ferry near the tourist destination of Coron in the Philippines’ Palawan province, Al Jazeera reported.
A fire has destroyed a truck and caused five million afghanis in financial losses in the capital of southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Tuesday.
Four workers have died from suffocation after toxic gases accumulated at a coal mine in Tala wa Barfak district of northern Baghlan province, the state-run Northern Coal Enterprise said on Sunday.
An Australian tourist travelling with a 10-member group to the Little Pamir in the Wakhan Corridor of northeastern Badakhshan province died of a heart attack while hiking in Chaparan Valley.
Two people have been killed and nine others injured in two traffic incidents in northwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Saturday.
Two explosions at a military facility in the Bolivian city of Viacha have killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others, authorities said.
A 10-year-old boy was killed and several stalls were destroyed in a fire at the Sang-I-Masha market in Jaghori district of Ghazni province, officials said. The Ghazni police said the fire broke out on Thursday among stalls…
At least two people were killed and several others wounded, including three police officers, after a gunman opened fire at an apartment building in the US city of Minneapolis on Wednesday.
At least 21 people were killed in a bus accident on Egypt’s Dahab-Nuweibaa road in South Sinai on Wednesday, the country’s Health Ministry said.
At least eight people have died and 18 others are missing after a ferry carrying 267 passengers and crew capsized off North Cyprus on Sunday, leaving survivors clinging to its overturned hull, authorities said.
Two people have been killed and 10 others injured in four separate traffic accidents in Pul-i-Alam, the capital of central Logar province, and the Mohammad Agha, Charkh and Baraki Barak districts, police official said on Sunday.
Thirty-seven people have been killed and nearly 400 evacuated after a Russian drone strike triggered explosions at a Ukrainian ammunition depot near residential areas outside Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said.
Fourteen people have been wounded when a gas cylinder exploded inside a rickshaw in Mehtarlam city, the capital of eastern Laghman province, an official said on Saturday.
A father and his four children have died after their boat capsized in the waters of Dahla Dam in Shah Wali Kot district of southern Kandahar province, provincial police said.
Three members of a family have been killed and three others injured in a traffic accident in the Gambaz area of Pul-i-Alam, the capital of central Logar province, officials said.
At least 12 people have been killed and 54 others injured as wildfires swept through parts of northeastern Algeria, forcing authorities to evacuate dozens of families from the worst-affected areas, an official said.
