{"id":13510,"date":"2026-05-23T06:29:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/23\/six-killed-three-injured-traffic-accident-kandahar\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:29:57","slug":"six-killed-three-injured-traffic-accident-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/23\/six-killed-three-injured-traffic-accident-kandahar\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Killed and Three Injured in Traffic Accident in Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials from the Kandahar Police Command under the Taliban administration announced that six people died and three others were injured in a traffic accident in the Daman district of Kandahar province. The incident occurred on the Kabul-Kandahar highway.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mullah Asadullah Jamshid, spokesperson for the Kandahar Police Command, the accident happened when a Corolla car collided with a tanker truck in the Daman district. The Kabul-Kandahar highway is considered one of the country&#8217;s busiest and most vital routes, with hundreds of passenger and cargo vehicles passing through daily.<\/p>\n<p>Officials stated that the injured were transferred to the hospital for treatment. No further details have been provided regarding their medical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Command added that investigations into the circumstances of the accident are ongoing. Traffic accidents on the country&#8217;s highways regularly claim the lives of citizens, highlighting the urgent need for greater attention to road safety and adherence to traffic laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six people died and three were injured in a traffic collision on the busy Kabul-Kandahar highway in Daman district, Kandahar province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}