Taliban gunmen kill 7 bus passengers in Farah

AFP

FARAH -- Afghan authorities Wednesday (July 12) recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of seven passengers kidnapped by gunmen in the western province of Farah a day earlier, in an attack blamed on Taliban insurgents, police said.

The violence came after Taliban fighters closed a highway connecting provincial capital Farah to Herat city late Tuesday (July 11), stopping a bus and forcing 16 passengers to dismount, Farah police spokesman Iqbal Baher told AFP.

They shot at least seven of them, while the remaining nine were taken hostage, he said.

The seven included six civilians and a police officer, said Baher.

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