{"id":24020,"date":"2026-10-15T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/15\/kandahar-bus-trailer-crash-five-dead-sixteen-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:37:13","slug":"kandahar-bus-trailer-crash-five-dead-sixteen-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/15\/kandahar-bus-trailer-crash-five-dead-sixteen-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus-trailer crash in Kandahar leaves five dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collision between a Bus 580 and a trailer truck on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in Daman district of Kandahar province has left five people dead and 16 others injured.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place around 4:30 a.m. on Thursday in the Azam Qala area of Daman district. Mullah Asadullah Jamshid, spokesman for Kandahar police command, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He did not provide further details about how the crash happened or the medical condition of the injured.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, three people were also killed and injured in another traffic incident in Paktia province. Drivers&#8217; carelessness, failure to follow traffic rules and excessive speed are seen as factors behind the repeated deadly accidents on the country&#8217;s highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bus 580 and trailer crash in Kandahar killed five and injured 16, while another traffic incident in Paktia left three dead or injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24020","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\/24020","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=24020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}