New Delhi, May 30 -- At least 22 people have been killed and 36 others injured, most of them women and children, after a truck carrying Afghan refugees from Pakistan overturned on a highway in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday (local time).

The incident occurred in Laghman province on the main highway linking Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul, with Nangarhar province, AP reported, citing Abdul Malik Niazai, the spokesperson for the provincial governor.

Niazai added that of those dead, 10 were children and five women, and the injured were taken to hospitals in Nangarhar. The provincial director of public health, Aminullah Sharif, said the accident occurred after the truck fell into a ditch when the driver fell asleep.

The passengers were ...