Afghan road mishap kills two, injures five

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BAMYAN, AFGHANISTAN (XINHUA) – At least two commuters died and five others were injured as a mini-bus turned turtle in Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province on Thursday, provincial police spokesman Muhammad Khawani Rasa said yesterday.

The official said the driver’s carelessness in driving on a congested road in Waras district on Thursday afternoon led to the death of the two travellers and the injury of five others, with two of them in critical condition.

This is the fourth road accident in the country since Tuesday. Six more people had been killed and 16 others injured in separate road accidents in Logar, Nuristan and Takhar.