12 killed in Afghanistan

Published June 24, 2003

KABUL, June 23: Twelve people were killed when a vehicle carrying 14 internal refugees back to their homes plunged into the Panjshir river northeast of Kabul, the official Bakhtar news agency reported on Monday.

The vehicle rolled off the mountain road into the river on Thursday last week and only a woman and a child survived.

The passengers were internal refugees returning to their homes in the Panjshir valley from Mazar-i-Sharif.—AFP

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