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Friday, July 25, 2014
Afghan conflict: 15 killed in 'Taliban attack' on buses
Ghor province has been relatively stable and loyal to the government
Suspected Taliban gunmen have killed 15 people who were travelling by road in the central Afghan province of Ghor.
The attackers stopped two minibuses overnight, ordered the passengers out and shot them dead, according to the province's police chief.
The victims - including three women and a child - were from the minority Hazara community, which has been targeted by the Taliban in the past.
Growing numbers of civilians have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
According to the UN, nearly 5,000 civilians were killed in the first six months of 2014 - a rise of almost a quarter on the same period in 2013.
Abdul Hai Khatibi, a spokesman for the governor of Ghor province, told the AFP news agency that the attackers had "ordered all passengers to stand in one line, and then they shot them dead one by one".
The spokesman is quoted as saying that one man managed to flee the attack. A newly married couple were among the dead.
Ghor province has been relatively stable and loyal to the government, says the BBC's David Loyn in Kabul.
He says people across Afghanistan have been travelling before the festival of Eid, often choosing to move by night to avoid the heat of day.
Tense time
In a separate attack on Thursday, two foreign aid workers were shot dead in a vehicle in Herat province
On Thursday, gunmen in Afghanistan shot dead two Finnish women working for a Christian aid charity in the western city of Herat.
A local governor said the women had been travelling by taxi when gunmen on a motorcycle fired on their vehicle.
The attacks come at a tense time for Afghanistan.
The majority of foreign troops are preparing to leave by the end of the year, and votes are being rechecked in a fiercely disputed presidential election to choose a successor to Hamid Karzai.
On Thursday, gunmen in Afghanistan shot dead two Finnish women working for a Christian aid charity in the western city of Herat.
A local governor said the women had been travelling by taxi when gunmen on a motorcycle fired on their vehicle.
The attacks come at a tense time for Afghanistan.
The majority of foreign troops are preparing to leave by the end of the year, and votes are being rechecked in a fiercely disputed presidential election to choose a successor to Hamid Karzai.
Pictorial Report: Taliban Executed 16 Hazara Passengers in the Ghor Province of Afghanistan
'طالبان نوعروس و داماد و ۱۲ نفر دیگر را در غور کشتن
به روز شده: 05:42 گرينويچ - جمعه 25 ژوئيه 2014 - 03 مرداد 1393
والی غور قتل این افراد را "فجیع و بیرحمانه" خواند
والی غور به بیبیسی گفته است که طالبان چهارده مسافر مینی بوس از جمله یک نوعروس، خواهر و مادرش و داماد را به ضرب گلوله به قتل رسانده اند.
انور رحمتی افزود که طالبان نیمه شب گذشته سه مینیبوس حامل مسافرانی را که از شهر چغچران، مرکز ولایت غور عازم کابل بودند در منطقه "بادگاه" در ۲۵ کیلومتری چغچران متوقف کردند.
به گفته او، طالبان مسافران را براساس اسناد هویتشان به دو گروه تقسیم و آنهایی را که منسوب به قوم "هزاره" بودند، جدا کردند، دستهایشان را بستند و گلوله باران کردند و بقیه را آزاد کردند.
والی غور که از محل تشییع جنازه مقتولان صحبت میکرد، گفت که قربانیان این رویداد قبل از قتل شکنجه شدهاند و آثار شکنجه در بدن آنها دیده میشود.
آقای رحمتی گفت که عروس و داماد و اعضای خانواده آنها از شهر چغچران، پنج تن دیگر از منطقه دایمیرداد، یک نفر از پنجاب و یکهاولنگ و یک دانشجوی اکادمی نظامی از پسابند بودند که میخواستند در روزهای عید در شهر کابل باشند.
والی غور گفت که عاملان قتل این غیرنظامیان طالبان محلی هستند. او افزود که این گروه پیش از این به ولسوالی چارسده حمله کرده اما موفق نشده بودند که مرکز حکومتی را تصرف کنند.
به این مقام دولتی، طالبان به تلافی ناکامی در فعالیتهای چند روز اخیر خود در ولایت غور، خواستند که حضور خود را با قتل این مسافران نشان دهند.
گروه طالبان هنوز در این مورد اظهار نظر نکرده است. این گروه معمولاً مسئولیت رویدادهایی را که منجر به قتل غیرنظامیان میشود، به عهده نمیگیرد.
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