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At least 15 people have died after a minibus veered off the road and plunged into a valley in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province, police said on Saturday, revising an earlier casualty figure.
A provincial police spokesperson said the vehicle lost control while travelling toward the provincial capital, Faizabad, blaming the crash on badly damaged road conditions.
The official said the victims included six children, five women, and four men. Three of the injured later succumbed to their wounds in the hospital, bringing the death toll to 15.
Fatal road accidents are frequent in Afghanistan, often attributed to deteriorating infrastructure after decades of war, reckless driving and weak traffic enforcement.
In August last year, 78 people, among them more than a dozen children, were killed in western Herat province when a bus carrying migrants returning from Iran collided with a motorcycle and a truck, authorities said at the time.
In a separate incident the same month, 25 people lost their lives after a bus overturned on a highway near Kabul, with officials attributing the crash to negligence.
