Many of the victims, including women and children, were burned beyond recognition in the accident in Zabul province, one of the areas worst hit by the Taliban insurgency. "The passenger bus was on its way from Kandahar to Kabul when it collided with a fuel tanker in Jildak area of Zabul," provincial governor Bismillah Afghanmal told AFP. Some of the injured were rushed to hospitals in the provincial capital Qalat as well as in neighbouring Kandahar province, said Ghulam Jilani Farahi, deputy Zabul police chief. Many in the country rely on old and rickety passenger vehicles and road accidents with high casualty rates are common. And in April 2013 a bus hit a wrecked fuel tanker in the southern province of Kandahar, killing 45 people.

Source: Thanhnien News September 04, 2016 07:52 UTC