The bodies of three Spanish tourists and three Afghans shot dead while visiting a market in Afghanistan were transported to the capital where multiple wounded were also treated, the Taliban government said Saturday, May 18. The wounded tourists are in stable condition, a hospital said Saturday. The group was fired on while shopping in the bazaar in the mountainous city of Bamiyan, around 180 kilometers from the capital Kabul, on Friday.
Anne-France Brill was one of the dozen foreign travelers on an organized tour who escaped unhurt. She described the terrifying seconds when a gunman on foot approached the group’s vehicles and opened fire. “There was blood everywhere,” she told Agence France-Presse (AFP) from Dubai, where she landed Saturday after being evacuated from Kabul. “One thing is certain,” she said, the assailant “was there for the foreigners”.
The attack is reportedly the first deadly assault on foreign tourists in Afghanistan since the…
