Bus crash in Zabul kills one, injures 19

ZABUL (Agencies): A bus crashed in Afghanistan’s southern Zabul province early Sunday, killing one person and injuring 19 others, officials said.
The incident happened on Kabul-Kandahar highway around 6:00 a.m. in Shahr-e-Safa district of Zabul province.
Zabihullah Jawhar, a spokesman for the provincial police, said that the person who died was the driver of the bus and those injured included women and children.
The injured were taken to Mirwais hospital in Kandahar. The cause of the crash remains unclear.
It comes a day after a car overturned in Zabul capital Qalat as a result of which one person was killed and two others were injured.