KABUL): Four male members of a family were killed and a fifth injured when a garbage-laden truck fell from a road into on their house on the outskirts of Kabul, an official said on Monday.
The predawn incident happened in the Koh-i-Asmai area, the Asmaee zone crime investigation chief, Col. Muhammad Zahir, told Pajhwok Afghan News.
The garbage truck skidded off the road and fell into the house, killing four brothers and injuring a fifth. The injured boy is 12 years of age, he said.
A doctor at the state-run Jamhuriat Hospital in Kabul, Ramazan Karimi, confirmed receiving four bodies and an injured boy, who was later referred to the Indira Gandhi Children Hospital.
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