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Nearly 260 injured in Herat in last five days

KABUL (Agencies): Officials at Herat Regional Hospital say around 260 people have been injured as a result of traffic incidents in this province over the last five days.
“In the last five days, we had 259 injured traffic accidents and unfortunately three deaths,” said Ahmad Farhad Afzali, head of Herat Regional Hospital emergency department.
According to Afzali, the majority of the injured are teenage and young people.
Meanwhile, doctors in this hospital said that most traffic accidents occurred on Eid days, and the number of injured people was twice as high as on normal days.
Reckless driving, overspeeding, decline to follow traffic rules are said to be the main reasons for road accidents.

The Frontier Post

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