Three Afghans died from exposure in freezing temperatures in the western province of Herat while trying to illegally enter Iran, a local army official said on Saturday. “Three people who wanted to illegally cross the Iran-Afghanistan border have died because of the cold weather,” the Afghan army official told AFP on condition of anonymity. He added that a shepherd was also found dead in the mountainous area of Kohsan from the cold. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.The migrants were part of a group that attempted to cross into Iran on Wednesday and was stopped by Afghan border forces.“Searches took place on Wednesday night, but the bodies were only found on Thursday,” the army official said. More than 1.8 million Afghans were forced to return to Afghanistan by the Iranian authorities between January and the end of November 2025, according to the latest figures from the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), which said that the majority