15 Killed, 3 Injured as Vehicle Plunges into Gorge in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – Fifteen people, including five women and six children, were killed and three others injured when a passenger vehicle veered off a road and fell into a gorge in northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, Taliban authorities said

In a statement on Saturday, the Taliban security command in Badakhshan said the incident took place around noon in the Samdar area of Arghanj khwa district. The vehicle, a flancoach-type passenger coach, was travelling from the provincial capital Faizabad to the district center of Arghanj khwa.