Accidents & Disasters

TALOQAN (Pajhwok): Three members of a family died from gas asphyxiation in northern Takhar province, police said, but residents put the death toll at six

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): More than 120 traffic accidents took place in northern Balkh province last year, leaving 108 people dead and 160 others injured, an official

MEHTARLAM (Pajhwok): A four-year-old girl was crushed to death by a vehicle in Alishang district of eastern Laghman province, police said on Sunday . .

One person has been killed and three others were injured as a result of traffic accident in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Sunday.

MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Some residents of Maimana City, the capital of northwestern Faryab province, have expressed their concerns over the presence of petrol stations in residential areas and demanded government to remove them.

At least three people have been killed as a result of a traffic accident in the Khulm district of northern Samangan province, an official said on Saturday.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) says $124.5 million is required to rebuild homes for Herat earthquake survivals.

Two consecutive earthquakes hit Afghanistan’s remote northeastern Badakhshan province on Friday morning.

FEROZKOH (Pajhwok): One person was killed and another sustained burn injuries after a fuel tanker caught fire and exploded in western Ghor province, police said

A 60-year-old Afghan migrant has been killed as a result of blaze in Tehran, the capital of Iran, media reports said on Monday.

At least three people have been killed and a fourth wounded as a result of an avalanche in the Shahr-i-Buzorg district of northeastern Badakhshan province.

The Salang highway, connecting Kabul with northern provinces, has been reopened after 24 hours of closure following heavy snowfall.