Kabul: At least 18 people were killed and three injured on Sunday when a minivan overturned in western Afghanistan, provincial officials said.
The accident in the Bala Murghab district of Badghis province was due to the driver`s "recklessness", said provincial governor`s spokesman Mirwais Mirzakwal, who gave the casualty figure.
Sharafudeen Majeedi, chief of staff in the governor`s office, confirmed the death toll.
The injured were taken to hospital by local people while police and a rescue team retrieved the bodies.
Afghanistan has some of the world`s most dangerous roads and deadly accidents are common.
In April 2013 a bus hit a wrecked fuel tanker in the southern province of Kandahar, killing 45 people.