Kandahar provincial spokesman Zalmai Ayubi says the overloaded bus was traveling through Dand district of Kandahar province Saturday when it swerved and rolled about 40 yards (meters) off the road. He says 26 people were injured.[break]
In eastern Nangahar province, spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai says an explosives-packed rickshaw exploded near the car of an Afghan intelligence agent, killing him and wounding four people.
And Afghan army spokesman Najibullah Majibi says a rickshaw-bomb detonated near an Afghan army truck in the western province of Herat, killing two soldiers and injuring three.
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