Accidents & Disasters

One person was killed and two others injured in a traffic accident in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, an official said on Monday.

At least 10 people were killed and several others injured in a traffic accident on the Herat-Kandahar highway in western Herat province on Sunday, police official said.

QALA-I-NAW (Pajhwok): As many as 56 landmines left over from the past wars have been discovered and destroyed in various areas of Bala Murghab district of western Badghis province in cooperation with the Danish Refugee Council (DRC).

Two people have lost their lives and nine others injured in a traffic accident in northern Baghlan province.

The bodies of eight Afghan refugees who died in a recent traffic accident in neighbouring Iran have been transferred to southern Ghazni province, police said on Saturday.

At least nine Afghan migrants have been killed and seven others injured in a traffic accident in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province, a media report said on Wednesday.

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Two people, including a woman, have been killed in two separate traffic accidents in eastern Nangarhar province, police said on Monday.

At least six people, including women and children, were killed and three others wounded after a vehicle overturned and caught fire in Qarghayi district of eastern Laghman province on Sunday.

Two women were killed and three others people were wounded in a traffic accident in northern Samangan province on Saturday, an official said.

At least 13 Afghan migrants have been killed and seven others injured after two vehicles carrying Afghan migrants overturned in Iran’s Sistan and Balochestan province.

Four people were killed in a traffic accident in northern Faryab province, an official said on Thursday.

Residents and cultural figures in northern Samangan province have urged the government to immediately restore the historic Bagh-e-Jahannama, parts of which were damaged in the recent earthquake, to prevent its complete collapse.