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An overloaded truck carrying Afghan families returning from Pakistan crashed in eastern Afghanistan on May 30, killing at least 22 people and injuring 36 others, local officials said.
The accident occurred near the Surkhakan intersection in the Qarghayi district of Laghman Province on the Kabul–Jalalabad highway, a key route linking the Afghan capital with the Torkham border crossing into Pakistan.
Mawlawi Aminullah Sharif, Nangarhar’s provincial public health director, said an earlier death toll of 18 had risen to 22 after several victims succumbed to their injuries in hospital.
Preliminary investigations indicate the driver fell asleep at the wheel, causing the heavily overloaded vehicle to leave the road and plunge into a ditch, Sharif said.
