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KANDAHAR, Aug 20: At least 20 people were killed and 28 injured on Saturday when two buses collided on a highway in the southern Afghanistan, police said. The accident occurred in Shar-i-Safa district of Zabul province on the highway linking the main city of Kandahar with the capital Kabul, a police official told said.
“It was the worst incident I remember,” the officer said.
A woman and two children were missing, he said, without giving details.
A lack of ambulances and medical services slowed the rescue effort, he said, adding that support had to be called in from the neighbouring province of Kandahar and Kabul.—APP
