At least 18 people, including 10 children and five women, were killed and 35 others injured when a truck carrying Afghan refugees returning from neighboring Pakistan overturned on a major highway in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday.
The accident occurred on the main highway linking the Afghan capital, Kabul, with the eastern city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, according to Abdul Malik Niazai, a spokesperson for the governor of Laghman province. The victims were rushed to nearby hospitals in Nangarhar for emergency medical treatment.
