Two bus accidents in Afghanistan resulted in dozens of deaths and dozens of injuries

A total of 50 people were killed and 76 injured in two highway accidents in southeastern Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Thursday.

One of them was a collision between a bus and an oil tanker on the Kabul-Kandahar highway on Wednesday evening, said Hafiz Omar, spokesman for the governor of Ghazni province.

The other, also on Wednesday evening and in the same province, was in another area of ​​the same highway that connects the Afghan capital to the south.

Hamidullah Nisar, head of the Taliban-run provincial department of information and culture, told Reuters news agency that the other accident involved a truck, adding that some of those injured in both collisions were in critical condition.

Omar said many of the injured were taken to hospitals in Ghazni, while the more serious patients were transferred to Kabul. According to him, among the victims were women and children.

Authorities are handing over the bodies to the families, Omar said.

Crash survivor Abdullah Khan, who was being treated at a hospital in Ghazni, said he did not know how many people were killed or injured.

“I got off the bus myself and heard a moan. There was blood everywhere. Some had head injuries, others had leg injuries.”

Traffic accidents are common in Afghanistan, mainly due to poor road conditions and careless drivers.