KABUL (Xinhua) – Five passengers have been confirmed dead and 28 others injured as a passenger bus turned turtle in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province on Sunday, the provincial police said in a statement.
The road accident occurred outside the provincial capital city of Kunduz early morning due to reckless driving, leaving five dead including women and children and injuring 28 others, some of them in critical condition, Xinhua reported.
Confirming the accident, provincial head for information and culture Matiullah Rohani told reporters that the injured travelers had been taken to the hospital for medical treatment.
While blaming carelessness of the driver for the deadly traffic accident, Rohani said related authorities would take steps to ensure highway traffic safety.
In another development, Pakistan announced on Saturday that its counterterrorism units had killed 4 Daesh terrorists in a remote mountainous area near the Afghan border.
The terrorists were connected to the regional branch of the Daesh group and reached the remote North Waziristan border region from Afghanistan, according to Pakistan’s provincial counterterrorism unit, according to Afghan Khaama press.
The statement said the Daesh terrorists were killed in an armed conflict that ensued following the Pakistani security forces’ operation.
According to reports, they planned to launch bombing assaults from both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Daesh has increased its regional terrorist activities since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last year as the U.S. and its NATO allies withdrew forces after almost 20 years of occupation.
The Pakistani embassy in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, was targeted last week, after which Daesh claimed responsibility.
Officials in Islamabad said that while Pakistan’s Charge d’Affaires Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani survived unharmed, but his Pakistani security guard was wounded in the chest.