Twenty people, including children, drowned when a boat sank during a river crossing in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, a provincial official said. “A boat with women and children on board sank on Saturday morning at 7 am (0230 GMT) in the river in the Basawul area of Momand Dara district,” Quraishi Badloon, the head of the province’s information department, said in a post on social media platform X on Saturday.

 

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