KABUL: Two people have been confirmed dead while six others were injured after a passenger car fell into a ravine in eastern Afghanistan's Nuristan province, local police said.
The accident occurred on Thursday in the Kordar area of Wama district when the vehicle veered off the road due to a technical failure and plunged into a deep ravine, provincial police spokesman Ahmad Bashir Barakzada told Xinhua.
On Wednesday, local police said that at least two commuters were killed and 16 others were injured in multiple traffic accidents reported across Afghanistan over the past 24 hours.
In northern Baghlan province's Dushi district, a head-on collision between two vehicles claimed one life and left four people injured. In eastern Wardak province, two separate incidents resulted in one fatality and five injuries.