Accidents & Disasters

At least two people have been killed and three others wounded as a result of a traffic accident in western Ghor province, an official said on Tuesday.

Three sisters as young as eight years old were killed when an unexploded mortar shell went off in Zurmat district southeastern Paktia province.

One security personal was killed and seven others sustained injuries when a pick-up vehicle they were travelling in overturned  in Ishkashim district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Monday.

FAIZABAD/JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Two people, including a child, have been killed and three others wounded in two separate traffic accidents in eastern Nangarhar and northeastern .

A  former Afghan Air Force pilot training for a commercial license in Oregon state of the United States ignored his flight instructor’s advice to not return to a small airport because of low visibility, a preliminary federal report of the crash released Friday said.

Five Afghan migrants’ bodies have been found on the Poland-Belarus border, media reports said on Sunday.

A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has jolted western Herat, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

Five peopleof a family have lost their lives to gas asphyxiation in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Thursday.

Three children have been killed and two women among another three people injured in a traffic accident in central Uruzgan province, police said on Tuesday.

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Eleven people, including women and children, were wounded when a gas cylinder exploded in a house in Pul-i-Alam, the . . .

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): At least four-members of a family have been killed as a result of a roof collapse in the capital of southern .

ZARANJ (Pajhwok): At least three passengers have been killed and 43 more injured in a pile-up in the Dilaram district of Nimroz province, officials .