Truck carrying returning refugees crashes in eastern Afghanistan, killing 22 - BERITAJA

KABUL, Afghanistan — A motortruck carrying Afghan refugees returning from neighboring Pakistan overturned connected a road successful eastbound Afghanistan connected Saturday, sidesplitting astatine slightest 22 group and injuring about 36 others, about of them women and children, officials said.

The mishap occurred successful Laghman state connected the main road linking Kabul, the Afghan capital, pinch Nangarhar province, said Abdul Malik Niazai, the spokesperson for the provincial governor.

He said among the dormant were 10 children and 5 women, and the injured were taken to hospitals successful Nangarhar.

The provincial head of nationalist health. Aminullah Sharif, said 22 group were killed and about 36 injured. He said the mishap occurred erstwhile the motortruck fell into a ditch aft the driver fell asleep.

The passengers were among thousands of Afghans who precocious returned from Pakistan, which launched a crackdown connected migrants successful 2023, and has since deported aliases pressured galore to leave. Iran besides intensified expulsions of Afghan migrants about the aforesaid time. Since then, millions of Afghans person returned location from the 2 countries, including galore who were calved successful Pakistan and had spent decades surviving and moving there.

In a abstracted mishap successful the eastbound state of Nuristan, a car fell disconnected the roadworthy into a stream connected Friday night, injuring the driver and leaving 4 passengers missing, the governor’s agency said Saturday. Rescue crews were searching for the four, the agency said.

Traffic accidents are communal crossed Afghanistan, wherever roads are poorly maintained and drivers routinely disregard postulation regulations.