In brief
A head‑on collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker on Afghanistan’s Salang Highway early Friday morning killed five commuters and injured twenty. Driver negligence was blamed and an investigation is underway, with injured patients taken to nearby health centers. Another report from a Taliban governor in Badakhshan, citing a separate collision on the Kabul‑Jalalabad route, claims four deaths and several injuries, but those details remain unconfirmed.
A head‑on collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker early Friday morning on the Salang Highway in Afghanistan’s Baghlan province killed five commuters and injured 20, Xinhua reported.
The accident, described by the official Bakhtar News Agency, was blamed on driver negligence; all injured were taken to nearby health centers, and investigators are said to be looking into the incident.
Reports from Taliban Governor in Badakhshan, accessed a few hours earlier, mention a traffic collision on the Kabul‑Jalalabad route in Baghlan that claimed four lives and injured several others, with some sources suggesting 26 casualties after a passenger bus; these figures remain unconfirmed.
