A provincial official said on Wednesday that a provincial official said on Wednesday that seventy people were killed in a collision between a bus in western Afghanistan.
Harat Provincial Government spokesman Mohammad Yusuf Saeedi said in a statement, “Seventy citizens of the country … lost their lives in the incident, and three others were seriously injured.”
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The dead included at least 17 children, the provincial government spokesperson Ahmedullah Mutaki told the Reuters News Agency.
Police in Gujara district outside Herat, where an accident occurred on Tuesday night, said the bus collided with a motorcycle and a truck carrying fuel, causing a fire.
The bus was recently taking the Afghans returning Afghans by Iran to the Afghan capital Kabul, Saeedi told AFP on Tuesday. Mutaki also said that he was deported by Tehran.
According to the UN Migration Agency, at least 1.5 million people have returned to Afghanistan since the beginning of this year, both have demanded the migrants to be forced by decades of hosting migrants.
The state -run Bakhtar news agency said that Tuesday’s accident was one of the deadliest in Afghanistan in recent years.
Traffic accidents are common in Afghanistan due to poor roads after decades of struggle, dangerous driving on highways and lack of regulation.
In December, Two bus accidents A fuel tanker and a truck were killed at least 52 on a highway through Central Afghanistan.
