Accidents & Disasters

More than 40 people were killed in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan’s Punjab and Balochistan provinces on Sunday, officials said.

Heavy rains, lightning, floods and rising water level in rivers are predicted over the next three days in 11 provinces of the country.

MEHTARLAM (Pajhwok): A woman was killed and three others were injured as flash floods devastated agricultural lands and damaged nearly 50 houses in eastern Laghman

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Two people have been killed and two others injured in two separate traffic accidents in northern Balkh province, police said on . .

Two people died as a result of a traffic accident in Yakaw Lang-1 district of central Bamyan province, an official said on Wednesday.

Flashfloods have washed away thousands of acres of agricultural land, irrigation canals, a number of small hydropower dams, culverts and bridges in the Rukha district of central Panjsher province, officials said on Wednesday.

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): Flash floods swept away residential houses, canals, highways, agricultural corps, culverts and gardens in southern Ghazni province last night, an official said

Flash floods in southern Ghazni province have claimed the lives of at least three people and left three others injured, an official said on Monday.

AIBAK (Pajhwok): One person was killed and four others were injured in a traffic accident on the Samangan-Balkh highway in northern Samangan province on .

Two people died and a third was injured in two separate incidents in western Badghis province, an official said on Saturday.

One person has been killed and seven others injured in a traffic accident in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Saturday.

Four members of a family have been killed and a fifth injured as a result of a gas cylinder explosion in northern Balkh province, an official said on Thursday.