7 killed in Afghan road accidents
Xinhua, February 4, 2015 Adjust font size:
Seven people were killed in two separate traffic accidents in Afghanistan on Wednesday, sources said.
In one incident, three people died while four others wounded after a Toyota SUV Jeep collided with an oil truck coming from opposite direction on a roadway in northern Samangan province, provincial government spokesman Seddiqullah Azizi told Xinhua.
"The accident occurred in Firoz locality at around 8:00 a.m. local time, the casualties were passengers aboard a SUV car. The wounded were shifted to a nearby hospital," he said.
The second mishap came about an hour later when a car crashed with an oil tanker in the eastern Nangarhar province.
The crashed set the sedan in fire and burned the four ill-fated people aboard the vehicle to death, the provincial police spokesman Hazrat Houssain Mashriqiwall told Xinhua.
Afghan officials blamed reckless driving for the traffic accidents, saying reckless driving on congested roads and highways is the main cause of road accidents in the central Asian country.
A total of 23 people were killed and more than 30 others wounded after a bus collided with a truck in southern Zabul province late last month. Endi