Traffic accident kills three people in Badghis province

Local Taliban officials in Badghis province, in northwestern Afghanistan, have reported that three people were killed in a traffic accident on Friday morning.

According to the spokesman of the Taliban governor in Badghis, Ahmad Jan Hanzala, the accident occurred on the Herat-Badghis highway in the Band-e Sabzak neighborhood of the province when a Khawar-type cargo car veered off the road due to excessive speed and overturned, killing three people on board.