![]() | This article may be excessively based on contemporary reporting. (March 2024) |
![]() Kabul-Kandahar Highway near Wardak Province in 2010. This is the highway where the crash took place. | |
Date | 3 September 2016 |
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Time | Early morning |
Location | Kabul-Kandahar highway, Zabul Province, Afghanistan. |
Participants | 60+ passengers on the buses, 2 people in the fuel tanker. |
Deaths | 38+ |
Non-fatal injuries | 28 |
Property damage | One bus and a fuel tanker destroyed. |
On 3 September 2016, at least 38 people were killed and 28 were injured after a fuel tanker carrying two people collided with a passenger bus carrying over 60 people on the dangerous Kabul-Kandahar highway in the province of Zabul, Afghanistan. The accident comes after an even larger incident that occurred on the same highway in May.[1]