Accidents & Disasters

A man has lost his life and 14 others have been injured as a result of a traffic accident in central Bamyan province, an official said on Tuesday.

A fire that broke out in Jalalabad City, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, has resulted in financial losses worth three million afghanis.

A child was killed and seven people were injured in a gas cylinder explosion in Chak district of central Maidan Wardak province.

At least two people have been killed and seven others injured in a traffic accident in the Surkh Rod district of eastern Nangarhar province, police said on Saturday.

At least two people, including a child, were killed after a car drove into crowds at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg.

Ten people have been wounded in a mosque roof collapse in the Ajristan district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Saturday.

At least two people have been killed and four others injured in a traffic accident on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in southern Helmand province, an official said on Saturday.

The Emergency Hospital has reported a significant rise in road traffic accidents in Afghanistan, revealing a fivefold increase since 2021.

Two people have been killed and three others injured in a traffic accident in central Parwan province, a police official said on Friday.

Some Afghan politicians, including Former Presidents Hamid Karzai and Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, have condoled the deaths and injuries of the last night's traffic accidents and expressed sympathies with the families of the victims.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has expressed its deep sorrow over the tragic traffic accidents in southern Ghazni province and has instructed the relevant authorities to conduct a thorough investigation.

At least 50 people, including women and children,  have been killed and 70 others wounded in two separate traffic accidents in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Thursday.