At least 50 people died today in a highway collision involving two buses and a fuel tanker, an Afghan official said.
Jawed Salangi, spokesman for the governor of eastern Ghazni province, says another 73 people who were on the buses are seriously wounded.
He says "up to 52" people, including women and children, were killed in the crash, which another official earlier blamed on reckless driving.
The collision happened on the main highway linking the capital, Kabul, to the southern city of Kandahar.
