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Seventy-six radical were killed successful a collision betwixt a autobus carrying Afghan migrants and 2 different vehicles successful occidental Afghanistan, a provincial authoritative said Wednesday.
"Seventy-six citizens of the state ... mislaid their lives successful the incident, and 3 others were earnestly injured," Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, Herat provincial authorities spokesman, said successful a statement.
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The dormant included astatine slightest 17 children, provincial authorities spokesperson Ahmadullah Muttaqi told the Reuters quality agency.
Police successful the Guzara territory extracurricular Herat city, wherever the mishap occurred Tuesday night, said the autobus collided with a motorcycle and a motortruck carrying fuel, sparking a fire.
The autobus was carrying Afghans precocious returned by Iran to the Afghan superior of Kabul, Saeedi told AFP connected Tuesday. Muttaqi besides said they'd been deported by Tehran.
At slightest 1.5 cardinal radical person returned to Afghanistan since the commencement of this twelvemonth from Iran and Pakistan, some of which person sought to unit migrants retired aft decades of hosting them, according to the U.N. migration agency.
The state-run Bakhtar News Agency said Tuesday's mishap was 1 of Afghanistan's deadliest successful caller years.
Traffic accidents are communal successful Afghanistan owed successful portion to mediocre roads aft decades of conflict, unsafe driving connected highways and a deficiency of regulation.
In December, two autobus accidents involving a substance tanker and a motortruck connected a road done cardinal Afghanistan killed astatine slightest 52.
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