The United Arab Emirates expressed its solidarity with Afghanistan and offered its heartfelt condolences for the victims of the bus collision traffic accident, which resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries in Herat province, western Afghanistan.
In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) conveyed the UAE’s sincere condolences and sympathy to the families of the victims and the people of Afghanistan over this tragedy, along with its wishes for a speedy recovery for all the injured.
The death toll from a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants returning from Iran and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan has risen to 78, provincial officials said on Wednesday.
Seventy-six people died in the accident in Herat province’s Guzara district on Tuesday night when the passenger bus hit a motorcycle and a truck transporting fuel, causing an explosive fire, officials and eyewitnesses said.
Two of the three survivors later died of their injuries, officials said on Wednesday.
“Two injured individuals from last night’s incident succumbed to severe injuries, increasing the number of victims to 78,” a statement by the provincial information department said, citing representatives of the military hospital that received victims.
Seventeen children were among those killed, according to army spokesman Mujeebullah Ansar, though a provincial police source put the number at 19.
