Children, have drowned when a boat sank during a river crossing in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangairhar province, according to local officials.
Quais hi Balloon, the head of Nangairhar province’s information department, said in a post on X that the vessel capsized at 7th (02:30 GMT) on Saturday “in the river in the Basal area of Mom and Dara district”.
He added that the boat was carrying 25 people, according to village residents, of whom five survived.
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The cause of the accident was being investigated.
The Nangairhar health department said in a statement that so far five bodies have been retrieved, including a man, a woman, two boys and a girl.
Efforts were still under way to find other others while a medical team and ambulances were sent to the area, it added.
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