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Afghan residents inspect the accident site as they stand near the remains of a bus following its collision with a coal truck on a highway between Kabul and southern Kandahar city, in the Andar district of Ghazni province, on Thursday.聽 | AFP photo

Two bus accidents involving a fuel tanker and a truck on a highway through central Afghanistan killed 52 people and injured 65, the Taliban government spokesmen said on Thursday.

The accidents happened in Ghazni province on the same highway between the capital Kabul and southern Kandahar city late Wednesday, provincial head of information and culture Hamidullah Nisar said on X, without specifying how many people were killed and injured in each accident.