MOSCOW (Sputnik) — At least 50 people died and more than 60 sustained injuries in a collision of two passenger buses with a fuel tanker in the Afghan southeastern Ghazni province on Sunday, local media reported, citing officials.
"The buses caught fire after the crash and most of the injured people are in a critical condition," a spokesman for the provincial governor, Aghagul Jawid Salangi told Afghanistan’s TOLO News.
Afghan: Ghazni Bus Tanker Hadsa, 50 Afrad Janbahaq* At least 50 dead passenger bus collide with fuel tanker in Afghanistan Ghazni province.
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One of the passenger vehicles has reportedly overturned.
Local police launched an investigation into the accident that is suspected to have been caused by unsafe driving.
