2 bus crashes in Afghanistan leave dozens dead, dozens more hurt

Two highway crashes in southeastern Afghanistan killed a combined total of 50 people and injured 76, a government spokesman said Thursday.

One was a collision between a bus and an oil tanker on the Kabul-Kandahar highway late Wednesday, said Hafiz Omar, a spokesman for the governor of Ghazni province.

The other, also late Wednesday and in the same province, was in a different area of the same highway, which connects the Afghan capital with the south.