Sunday, February 24, 2013
Pul-i-Khmri (BNA) The death toll from a traffic accident in northern Baghlan province has raised to three after a 12 year old boy succumbed to his wounds at a hospital here, officials said on Saturday.
The boy was among 27 people critically injured when a passenger bus crashed into a coach and a car on the Kunduz-Baghlan highway on Friday near the Shahr-i-Kohna area of Baghlan-i-Markazi district.
Sayed Alim Shah, provincial traffic police chief said that two men were killed instantly and 27 others, including seven women and six children, injured.
A doctor at the Baghlan Civil Hospital, Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai said as 12 year old child died of his wounds last night. Another four injured are in critical condition and two of them were later shifted to Kabul and a third to neighboring Kunduz province.
