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A motortruck carrying Afghan refugees returning from neighbouring Pakistan overturned connected a road successful eastbound Afghanistan connected Saturday (May 30, 2026), sidesplitting astatine slightest 18 radical and injuring 35 others, astir of them women and children, officials said.
The mishap occurred successful Laghman state connected the main road linking Kabul, the Afghan capital, with Nangarhar province, said Abdul Malik Niazai, the spokesperson for the provincial Governor.
He said among the dormant were 10 children and 5 women and the injured were taken to hospitals successful Nangarhar for aesculapian treatment.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban authorities spokesperson expressed his sorrow implicit the incidental and offered condolences to the victims' families.
Traffic accidents are communal crossed Afghanistan, wherever roads are poorly maintained and drivers routinely disregard postulation regulations.
The passengers were among thousands of Afghans who precocious returned from Pakistan, which launched a crackdown connected undocumented migrants successful 2023 and has since deported oregon pressured galore to leave.
Iran besides intensified expulsions of Afghan migrants astir the aforesaid time. Since then, millions of Afghans person returned location from the 2 countries, including galore who were calved successful Pakistan and had spent decades surviving and moving there.
