KABUL, Aug. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Twenty people were killed and 27 others got wounded as two passenger buses collided in southern Kandahar province Saturday, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry spokesman said.

    "The incident occurred in Shar-e-Safa district at 1:30 p.m. when a Kabul-bound bus hit another bus coming from opposite direction killing 20 on the spot and wounded 27 others," Lutfullah Mashal confirmed to media.

    All the wounded passengers have been taken to Kandahar hospital while the dead bodies are in Shar-e-Safa to determine their identifications, he added.

    Around a dozen others were killed in another road accident in southern Afghanistan last week.

    Mainly bad driving, poor condition of roads and unprofessional traffic police are blamed for deadly road accidents in the war-battered Afghanistan. Enditem