Militants gun down five civilians in southern Afghanistan
Iran Press TV
Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:14PM
Suspected Taliban militants have shot dead at least five civilians in the southern Afghan province of Zabul.
A senior local security official said militants opened fire indiscriminately at a market in Nawbahar District of the province on Wednesday.
Mirwais Noorzai, the Zabul police chief, said three other people were injured in the shooting.
At least two attackers and one policeman were also killed in a series of fierce clashes that ensued the market shooting.
On Tuesday, a civil society activist and a police officer lost their lives after Taliban assailants sprayed them with bullets in the Shah Joy district of the same troubled province.
Elsewhere on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway near Laghman Province, gunmen kidnapped five passengers on Wednesday. Sarhadi Zwak, spokesman for the Laghman governor, confirmed the abductions.
Dozens of people have reportedly lost their lives in a series of attacks by the Taliban militants across the northern province of Baghlan and the eastern province of Khost over the past three days.
Suspected Taliban militants frequently target civilians in an attempt to spread fear and terror across various parts of Afghanistan.
Militants have stepped up terrorist attacks against the government as well as civilian targets since they launched the so-called spring offensive in late April.
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