KABUL, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Five commuters were killed and five others sustained injuries after a vehicle plunged into a ravine in Shahri Buzurg district of northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province on Sunday, district chief Mawlawi Abdul Rashid Reshad said.
Blaming reckless driving for the deadly mishap, the official noted that all the injured persons, some in critical conditions, had been shifted to a nearby hospital. ■