{"id":11712,"date":"2024-12-20T16:12:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T12:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/deadly-accidents-in-southeastern-afghanistan-kill-over-50\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T16:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T12:42:43","slug":"deadly-accidents-in-southeastern-afghanistan-kill-over-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/deadly-accidents-in-southeastern-afghanistan-kill-over-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly accidents in southeastern Afghanistan kill over 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5296402.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>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, according to AP.<\/p>\n<p>The other was in a different area of the same highway, which connects the Afghan capital with the south.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe injured have been taken to hospitals in Ghazni and authorities are in the process of handing over the bodies to families,\u201d said Omar. Patients in a more serious condition were transferred to Kabul. Women and children are among the casualties, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Crash survivor Abdullah Khan, who was being treated in a Ghazni hospital, said he didn\u2019t know how many people had either died or were injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got out from the bus myself and heard the sound of moaning. There was blood everywhere. Some people had head injuries and others had hurt their legs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Traffic accidents are common in Afghanistan, mainly due to poor road conditions and driver carelessness.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest figures released by Afghanistan, 52 people were killed and 65 were injured in the accidents.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/225737\/Deadly-accidents-in-southeastern-Afghanistan-kill-over-50\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, according to AP. The other was in a different area of the same highway, which connects the Afghan capital with the south. \u201cThe injured have been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}