KABUL, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- One traveler was killed and five others injured in a road accident in western Afghanistan's Herat province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Sayed Masoud Hussaini said Wednesday.
Blaming reckless driving for the accident, the official said the driver's negligence on a road linking the provincial capital, Herat city, with the border town of Islam Qala caused the mishap, which left one person dead at the scene.
Police rushed to the site and shifted the five injured persons, some of whom were in critical condition, to a nearby hospital, the official added. ■
