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muriel_volestrangler

(101,306 posts)
Sun May 8, 2016, 05:50 AM May 2016

Afghanistan fuel tanker crash kills 52 in Ghazni province

Source: BBC

Two buses and a fuel tanker have collided on a major highway in Afghanistan killing 52 people.

An official told the BBC that 73 people injured in the accident had been taken to hospital in Ghazni province.

All three vehicles were set ablaze after the collision on the main road linking the capital, Kabul, to the southern city of Kandahar.
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Mohammadullah Ahmadi, the director of the provincial traffic department, said the crash was caused by reckless driving, the Associated Press news agency reports.


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36241002



How horrible.
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Afghanistan fuel tanker crash kills 52 in Ghazni province (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler May 2016 OP
The photos are heartwrenching... Rhiannon12866 May 2016 #1
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