Back মুকুর জেলা Bengali/Bangla Muqêr CEB ولسوالی مقر Persian Distretto di Muqur (Ghazni) Italian Daerah Muqur, Ghazni Malay Mukur (dystrykt) Polish مقر ولسوالۍ (غزني) Pashto/Pushto Muqur (distrikt i Ghazni) Swedish Mukur ilçesi, Gazni Turkish مقر ضلع، غزنی Urdu
Muqur
مقر | |
|---|---|
  Muqur Location within Afghanistan | |
| Coordinates: 32°53′16″N 67°54′06″E / 32.887660°N 67.901573°E | |
| Country | Afghanistan |
| Province | Ghazni |
| Capital | Muqur |
| Population (2002)[1] | |
• Total | 70,900 |
Muqur also spelt Moqur (Persian: مُقُر) is a district in the southwest of Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Its population was estimated at 70,900 in 2002, of whom 19,538 were children under 12.[1]
On 8 May 2016, a vehicular accident on a stretch of the Kabul-Kandahar Highway occurred in the district, killing 73. Two buses travelling from Kabul to Kandahar collided with a fuel tanker. The stretch of highway in this district is reportedly dangerous due to Taliban presence, and the vehicles were speeding to avoid ambush.[2]
- ^ a b "District Profile" (PDF). UNHCR. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ "Fuel-tanker crash kills over 70 in Afghanistan's Ghazni". Al-Jazeera May 8, 2016. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/afghanistan-road-crash-ghazni-160508115025713.html