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Abdul Zahir, Police Chief of Laghman's Dawlat Shah District, was killed accidentally by Afghan forces artillery fire, Laghman Governor said. The incident took
Corruption, Negligence Witnessed During Herat Customs Fire
The joint task team made up of members of the private sector and the House of Representatives, which went to the Islam Qala customs area to investigate the cause of the fire that started on Saturday, said that a non-standard method of sampling of liquid natural gas by the Afghanistan National Standards Authority.
According to the findings of the task team, corrupt and negligent behavior of customs officials at Islam Qala was the main cause of the fire s expansion.
Meanwhile, officials at the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment said that investors and traders are no longer interested in importing their goods through Islam Qala due to the lack of capacity and resources at the customs area.
Herat Fire Costs 100s of Millions of Dollars to Investors
The massive fire at the border town of Islam Qala, 120 kilometers west of Herat city, has inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars in financial damage to investors who kept their goods parked at the area and distributed them to other parts of the country once they were cleared through customs.
Unconfirmed figures show that thousands of vehicles carrying fuel and mostly imported goods have been damaged.
The fire was fully extinguished after almost 24 hours on Sunday afternoon, according to the Ministry of Finance, which said a team has been assigned to measure the damages caused by the blaze.
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