'Forty killed' as Afghanistan buses crash

Two tour buses travelling at high speed collided head-on on a southern Afghan highway this evening, killing about 40 people on board, a highway police commander said.

About 15 women and children and 25 men were killed, in the crash on Afghanistan’s main Kabul-Kandahar highway near the border area between Ghazni and Zabul provinces, said Jalali Khan, the Zabul province highway commander.