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KABUL, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - At least 25 people were killed and 27 injured 
when a bus overturned in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, authorities told 
AFP, a week after the country's deadliest road accident in years.

The crash happened "due to the driver's negligence" on a highway near the 
capital Kabul leading to the southern city of Kandahar, interior ministry 
spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said.

Qani said 25 people were killed and 27 were being treated at hospitals for 
injuries, the extent of which was not specified.

Deadly traffic crashes are common in Afghanistan, due in part to poor roads 
after decades of conflict, dangerous driving on highways and a lack of 
regulation.

Last Tuesday, 78 people, including more than a dozen children, were killed in 
western Herat province when a bus carrying migrants returning from Iran 
collided with a motorcycle and a truck, according to authorities.

In December last year, two bus accidents involving a fuel tanker and a truck 
on a highway through central Afghanistan killed at least 52.