2 Highway Crashes in Southeastern Afghanistan Kill 50 People and Injure 76

Afghan residents inspect the accident site as they stand near the remains of a bus following its collision with a coal truck on a highway, in the Andar district of Ghazni Province, on Dec. 19, 2024. Mohammad Faisal Naweed/AFP via Getty Images

Two highway crashes in southeastern Afghanistan have killed a combined total of 50 people and injured 76, a government spokesman said Thursday.

One was a collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker on the Kabul-Kandahar highway late Wednesday, said Hafiz Omar, a spokesman for the governor of Ghazni Province.