ISLAMABAD, May 28 Kyodo Eight ra...

ISLAMABAD, May 28 Kyodo

Eight race were killed and 21 others were injured Tuesday as sum of two units vehicles collided on a highway in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported.

A small passenger bus collided with a larger bus forward the Jalalabad-Turkham highway about 3 kilometers from the major eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, AIP said.

It quot a police officer as saying the bus was being driven by way of the conductor, not the driver.

There are hardly any traffic accidents in Afghanistan because roads have been devastateed in internal conflicts and vehicles cannot travel at high get ons AIP said.

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