No group claims accountability for assault in Bamyan, which official says additionally injures seven individuals.
Gunmen have killed an Afghan citizen and three international vacationers in central Afghanistan’s Bamyan province, the Ministry of Inside Affairs says.
4 international nationals and three Afghans have been additionally injured within the assault on Friday when gunmen opened fireplace, ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani mentioned.
4 individuals have been arrested, he mentioned.
The Taliban authorities “strongly condemns this crime, expresses its deep emotions to the households of the victims and assures that each one the criminals shall be discovered and punished”, Qani mentioned in a press release.
No group instantly claimed accountability for the late night assault.
Spain’s Ministry of International Affairs later confirmed that the three people killed on Friday have been Spanish residents. No less than one Spanish nationwide was additionally amongst these injured.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez mentioned in a submit on social media that he was “overwhelmed by the information of the homicide of Spanish vacationers in Afghanistan”, providing his condolences to the households and associates of the victims.
Sanchez additionally mentioned he was following the scenario carefully and pledged consular assist.
The mountainous area of Bamyan is Afghanistan’s high vacationer vacation spot, house to a UNESCO World Heritage Website and the stays of two big Buddha statues that the Taliban blew up throughout their earlier rule of Afghanistan in 2001.
Since taking up the nation once more in 2021 after the withdrawal of United States-led forces, the Taliban have promised to revive safety and encourage a small however rising variety of vacationers trickling into the nation.
Friday’s assault was the deadliest for the reason that Taliban took over three years in the past.
ISIL (ISIS) claimed an assault that injured Chinese language residents at a lodge in style with Chinese language businessmen within the Afghan capital, Kabul, in 2022.
The European Union condemned the assault in Bamyan in a short assertion on Friday.
“Our ideas are with the households and family members of the victims who misplaced their lives and people injured within the assault,” it mentioned.
