At least nine people were killed and injured in a traffic incident on Herat-Kandahar highway on Thursday morning, local officials said.

Two people were killed and 7 others injured in the incident, the provincial governor’s spokesma Jilani Farhad told Reportery.

Farhad noted that the incident took place in Adraskan district, in Herat-Kandahar highway when a passenger bus and a truck collided.He added that the injured are in critical health conditions.
Accidents are common in Afghanistan’s highways and most of the traffic accidents are basically due to the carelessness of drivers, high-speed driving and bad condition of the roads.