At least 21 people were killed and 38 injured this Sunday morning, March 17, in southern Afghanistan in a collision between a tanker truck, a bus and a motorcycle which caught fire, officials in the province of Afghanistan announced. Helmand.
“Early this morning, 21 people were killed in a road accident between a bus, a tanker truck and a motorcycle on a road”
in Helmand province, Governor Mohammad's spokesperson told AFP. Qasim Riyaz.
Thirty-eight people were injured, another official provincial source later said.
The tanker truck was carrying gasoline and, after the collision, the vehicles caught fire and the bodies of many victims were charred, the governor's spokesperson added.
The accident, which occurred for unknown reasons, took place on the main road linking Herat, in western Afghanistan, to the capital Kabul, in the center.
Traffic on the roads of Afghanistan, a country bled by four decades of fighting and crossed by high mountain ranges, is often very deadly.
Thirty-one people died in December 2022 at the Salang pass (center), in the Hindu Kush range, after a tanker overturned, setting other vehicles on fire.