KABUL: A road accident claimed two lives and injured eight others in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar, provincial police spokesman Sayed Tayeb Hamad said on Tuesday.
The deadly mishap took place on Monday evening when a vehicle carrying female employees of a clinic collided with a car coming from the opposite direction.
A female medical doctor and a child lost their lives on the spot, and eight others, including six female employees of the clinic, a child, and their driver, were injured, the official added, Xinhua News Agency reported.
This is the second road mishap in the eastern region reported by police over the past three days.
In the previous accident, which happened in Nangarhar's neighbouring Laghman province on Sunday, six commuters lost their lives and three others were injured.