KABUL, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Five people were killed in a road crash in east Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Wednesday night, a local official said on Thursday.

The mishap occurred when a passenger vehicle collided with a truck on the outskirts of the province's Ab Band district, along the highway linking the capital Kabul with the southern Kandahar province, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported, quoting provincial police spokesman Khalid Sarhadi.

Fatal road accidents are common in Afghanistan due to poor road conditions, reckless driving, difficult terrains, overloading, overtaking and overspeeding. Enditem

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