KABUL: Seven commuters were killed and two others sustained injuries due to a road accident that occurred in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Ehsanullah Kamgar said.
The deadly collision took place in the Maimay district of the mountainous Darwaz region early morning, the official said without providing more details, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Last week, at least five people were killed and 44 others injured after a bus overturned in the Salang area of Afghanistan's Baghlan province.
In a statement shared on X, Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) spokesperson Mohammad Ashraf Haqshenas said on Sunday that the incident happened in the Shawal area, north of Salang, at around 2 am on Saturday (local time), local media outlet Pajhwok Afghan News reported.