At least 15 people were killed and 25 others injured after a long-distance bus collided with a truck in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar on Saturday, a provincial government spokesman said. 

The incident happened at around 6:00 a.m. local time when a head-on passenger bus collided with a running cargo truck along Kandahar-Heart roadway in Hawz-e-Madad area of Zhari district, Xinhua News Agency reports citing provincial governor spokesman Aziz Ahmad Azizi. 

"Those among the killed were three women and three children, and three women and a child were among the injured," he added. 

Road mishaps are frequent in the mountainous country and occur mostly due to poor road condition and reckless driving.