{"id":11629,"date":"2025-08-27T23:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=11629"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:56:36","slug":"afghanistan-bus-crash-kills-25-injures-27-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=11629","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan bus crash kills 25, injures 27: authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 25 people were killed and 27 injured when a bus overturned in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, authorities told AFP, a week after the country\u2019s deadliest road accident in years.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened \u201cdue to the driver\u2019s negligence\u201d on a highway near the capital Kabul, leading to the southern city of Kandahar, interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani said.<\/p>\n<p>Qani said 25 people were killed and 27 were being treated at hospitals for injuries, the extent of which was not specified.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly traffic crashes are common in Afghanistan, due in part to poor roads after decades of conflict, dangerous driving on highways and a lack of regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, 78 people, including more than a dozen children, were killed in western Herat province when a bus carrying migrants returning from Iran collided with a motorcycle and a truck, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>In December last year, two bus accidents involving a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway through central Afghanistan killed at least 52.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 25 people were killed and 27 injured when a bus overturned in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, authorities told AFP, a week after the country\u2019s deadliest road accident in years. The crash happened \u201cdue to the driver\u2019s negligence\u201d on a highway near the capital Kabul, leading to the southern city of Kandahar, interior ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11631,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11629\/revisions\/11631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}