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PESHAWAR, Aug 3: Six persons were killed in a collision between two pick-up trucks near the border town of Torkham inside Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday.
An official at the Torkham check-post said that two pick-up trucks collided on Torkham-Jalalabad highway near Samerkhel Garrison, Jalalabad, west of the border check-point.
He said that the collision had killed six persons, including two tribesmen from the Shalman area in the Khyber Agency.
The tribesmen, killed in the accident, were identified as Ikhtiar Gul and Nisar Gul. Their bodies were later handed over to Pakistani officials. The tribesmen, it was learnt, were travelling from Torkham to Jalalabad.
PRISONER FREED: The Afghan government on Sunday freed two Pakistanis from the Kabul prison on Sunday, sources said.
They said that Afghan authorities had handed over two prisoners — Zulfiqar belonging to Sheikhupura and Mohammad Taj from Mardan — to International Committee of Red Cross in Kabul.
The ICRC representatives later handed them over to the Pakistani consulate officials in Jalalabad, capital of the eastern Afghan province of Nangrahar.
Officials said that both of the persons were arrested by Afghan authorities about a year ago on charges of travelling without valid documents.
