The Taliban’s head of the Vice and Virtue Department in central Bamiyan province ran over 3 people with his car.
The incident took place around 10:00 a.m. yesterday (Saturday, December 17th) near the office of the Taliban’s Vice and Virtue Department located in the New City of Bamiyan, according to sources.
This incident occurred when Mawlawi Maqbool Ahmad Waqas was driving, carelessly over the speed limit, said a source, who did not disclose his identity due to security concerns.
“Three bones in the legs of a victims are broken, and the conditions of the other two is critical,” the source explained.
However, the Taliban’s Vice and Virtue Department in Bamiyan said: “We did not run over, a motorcycle with three people on board collided with our car.”
A source in the provincial Bamiyan hospital also detailed that three injured people from a road incident were transferred to the hospital yesterday. According to him, one of the wounded had broken legs and was taken to a hospital in Kabul for treatment, and the other two are being treated in the provincial hospital of Bamiyan.
Our correspondent attempted to have the opinion of Mawlawi Maqbool Ahmad Waqas, the Taliban’s head of the Vice and Virtue Department in Bamiyan. But the Taliban member refused to talk on this matter.
Also, previously, in a similar incident, Mawlawi Islamuddin Osmani, a former head of Taliban’s Education Department in Bamiyan, also killed a student when driving without due attention.
