18 Including 10 Children Die in Eastern Afghanistan Truck Accident

Kabul. AFP has reported, citing provincial officials, that 18 people, including 10 children traveling in a truck, died when the truck overturned and crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday.

According to Abdul Malik Niazi, spokesman for the governor of Laghman province, Afghan families returning from Pakistan were traveling in the truck. The spokesman confirmed that 18 people, including ten children, five women, and three men, died, and added that 29 others were injured.