At least 18 people, including 10 children and five women, were killed and dozens more injured when a truck carrying returnees overturned on a highway in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Laghman early Saturday, Taliban officials said.
The crash occurred around 5:30 a.m. near the Surkhkanu intersection in Qarghayi district of Laghman province, along the main Kabul–Jalalabad highway, according to Habibullah Mubarez, the Taliban’s traffic director in Laghman.
