Death toll in Afghanistan road accident rises to 73

  08 May 2016    Read: 736
Death toll in Afghanistan road accident rises to 73
Death toll in a collision of two passenger buses and a fuel tanker in southeast Afghanistan reached 73.
Earlier media reports indicated the accident claimed 50 lives and injured about 60 individuals, most of them in critical condition.

"A total of 73 people were killed and several others wounded after two buses and an oil truck collided in Ghazni on Sunday morning," Ismahil Qawoosi told China’s Xinhua news agency.

The accident occurred in the Afghan southeastern Ghazni province on a highway between the country`s capital of Kabul and the second largest city of Kandahar at about 6:30 a. m. local time (2:00 GMT).

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