PESHAWAR, July 4: Three returning Afghan refugees were killed on Thursday when their bus overturned near the Torkham border, police said on Thursday.

The bus overturned and crashed into a ditch inside Pakistan territory, hardly a kilometre from the border, police said.

The bus was carrying 16 Afghan families from Islamabad. They had opted to return home under a UN-sponsored voluntary repatriation programme.

Police said three Afghan men died and 16 other people, including eight women, were injured.—AFP