KABUL, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and two others sustained injuries in a deadly highway traffic accident in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province early Thursday, a provincial police official said.
The incident unfolded in the Sangylan region along the vital highway connecting southern Kandahar to western Herat province, when a passenger vehicle slammed into a fuel tanker, according to provincial police spokesman Mullah Ezatullah Haqqani.
Haqqani cited reckless driving as the primary cause of the crash, adding that the injured were shifted to a nearby medical facility for treatment.
Traffic accidents remain a major public safety concern in Afghanistan, claiming thousands of lives each year. ■
