At least 17 passengers have been wounded in a traffic accident in Charshanba-Tapa area of Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province, officials said Thursday.

AVA- Baghlan-e-Markazi district governor Gawhar Khan Baburi told Ariana News that a passenger bus overturned in Kunduz-Kabul highway this morning that left 17 people injured.

The wounded people were taken to Kunduz hospital for treatment, but two of them were in a critical condition, Baburi added.

He accused the driver who has escaped the incident scene for reckless driving.

Most of the traffic accidents are basically because of the carelessness, high speed driving, insufficiency of traffic signs, and bad condition of the roads.