Bloody attack in Afghanistan
IS claims responsibility for attack on group of tourists
The jihadist militia Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack on foreign tourists in which six people were killed in the mountain town of Bamian on Friday.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen Its fighters had "machine-gunned Christian tourists and their Shiite companions", the group said on Sunday in the online service Telegram. They had attacked a "bus carrying tourists who are citizens of the coalition countries", it said, referring to the US-led coalition fighting IS in the region. The attack was in line with the instructions of the IS leadership to attack citizens of the coalition countries, it added.
Three Spaniards and three locals were killed in the attack, and several people from Spain, Lithuania, Norway, Australia and Afghanistan were injured. The tour group was shot at on Friday while shopping in a bazaar in Bamian, around 180 kilometers from the capital Kabul.
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