At least 73 people have been killed after two passenger buses and an oil tanker burst into flames in a head-on collision in eastern Afghanistan, health officials said.
The dead included women and children, while dozens of others were left badly injured in the accident on Sunday in Ghazni province, near the Afghan capital, one of the areas worst affected by the Taliban insurgency.
The vehicles were completely gutted and clouds of acrid smoke shrouded the scene of the crash on the Kabul-Kandahar highway, a major roadway linking Afghanistan’s two largest cities.
