{"id":7140,"date":"2026-02-17T14:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/17\/collision-freight-truck-passenger-bus-ghazni\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T14:00:19","slug":"collision-freight-truck-passenger-bus-ghazni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/17\/collision-freight-truck-passenger-bus-ghazni\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Killed in Collision Between Freight Truck and Passenger Bus in Ghazni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local officials in Ghazni province report that a collision between a freight truck and a passenger bus on the Kabul-Kandahar highway has resulted in five fatalities and one child injured.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the Ghazni provincial police command under Taliban administration, the incident occurred on Monday in the Ab Band district.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened when the freight truck struck the passenger bus on this busy highway. The injured child was taken to a medical center for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have attributed the cause of the accident to reckless and careless driving. The Kabul-Kandahar highway is one of the country&#8217;s main transit routes and witnesses similar traffic incidents annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crash between a freight truck and passenger bus on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in Ghazni kills five and injures a child, officials say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-security-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140","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=7140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}