{"id":72213,"date":"2024-03-17T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T13:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/crash-involving-passenger-bus-fuel-truck-kills-21-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T13:37:04","slug":"crash-involving-passenger-bus-fuel-truck-kills-21-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/crash-involving-passenger-bus-fuel-truck-kills-21-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash involving passenger bus, fuel truck kills 21 in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>A traffic accident in southern Afghanistan killed 21 people and injured dozens on Sunday, the provincial government said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash on the Kandahar-Herat highway involved a motorcycle, a fuel truck and a bus, said Sher Mohammad Wahdat, head of the information department for Helmand\u2019s provincial government, adding that 38 people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Photos in local media showed a tanker on fire on the dusty road and the vehicle wreckage from the accident in the Gereshk district of Helmand.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic accidents are common in Afghanistan, with poor infrastructure exacerbated by decades of war that ended when foreign troops left in 2021 and the Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1640905\">took over<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Helmand province, a Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1642382\">stronghold<\/a> during the war, saw some of the country\u2019s most intense fighting.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A traffic accident in southern Afghanistan killed 21 people and injured dozens on Sunday, the provincial government said. The crash on the Kandahar-Herat highway involved a motorcycle, a fuel truck and a bus, said Sher Mohammad Wahdat, head of the information department for Helmand\u2019s provincial government, adding that 38 people were injured. 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