60 Killed in Bus Crash in Afghanistan

Around 60 people have been killed after a passenger bus overturned and caught fire in Herat province, western Afghanistan, according to local media reports.

Afghan police radio, citing local officials, confirmed that the bus was carrying travellers returning from a neighboring country when the accident occurred.

Rescue efforts were hampered by the region’s rugged terrain, making access to the crash site difficult and delaying medical assistance for the injured.

Eyewitnesses reported that the blaze spread rapidly because the vehicle was transporting flammable materials, intensifying the scale of the disaster.

This tragedy comes less than a year after two separate collisions on the Kabul–Kandahar highway in Ghazni province left 44 people dead and 76 others injured on 19 December.