SULAIMANI (ESTA) — At least five casualties were reported on Thursday following a deadly traffic collision in Darbandikhan outskirts southeast of Sulaimani province.
The traffic collision occurred on the Sulaimani-Darbandikhan motorway, near Chnara village, where two were reported killed and three others injured as a result.
“The collision was so severe. We do not know which vehicles the victims were passengers in,” said the Director of Darbandikhan Traffic.
Most of the Kurdistan Region’s motorways suffer from a lack of maintenance or are poorly maintained by the government.
A large number of people annually lost their lives in traffic accidents that are prompted by poor road conditions in addition to reckless driving.
Many of the inter-province or outskirts motorways are single-carriageways which are also under heavy loads on a daily basis due to intense traffic.
