Kabul: A passenger bus careened off of a mountain road in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 35 people, officials said.
The packed bus was travelling through Kandahar province on its way to Kabul before losing control and rolling several times, said provincial spokesman Zalmai Ayubi. He said 27 people were injured in the crash. Such accidents are common in Afghanistan, where roads and vehicles are often poorly maintained.
Also on Saturday, a string of insurgent attacks across the country killed five people. In the eastern province of Nangahar, a bomb in a rickshaw killed an Afghan intelligence agent and wounded four people, said provincial spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai.
Also on Saturday, the Afghan Interior Ministry released new details of the attack a day earlier on the British Council building in Kabul that killed eight people.
Thirty-four people were killed and 24 others were injured Saturday when the passenger bus in which they were travelling turned turtle in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, Xinhua reported. (AP)
The accident occurred in Daman district when the bus was on its way to Kabul.
Provincial government spokesman Zalmai Ayubi said 34 people were killed and 24 others were injured.
Ayubi blamed reckless driving for the accident. (IANS)