AIP: Two people were killed and another wounded when unidentified gunmen opened firing on a vehicle in Balakh province on Thursday.
The security chief of Balakh province Naseeruddin Hamdard confirmed to Afghan Islamic Press that unknown people opened indiscriminate firing on a passenger vehicle in Chamtal district of Balkh province todayÂ’s afternoon, killing two and injuring one inmate. The killed and injured people are civilians and dwellers of Chamtal district, he added. Meanwhile a resident of the area told Afghan Islamic Press that the vehicle was of a local non-governmental organization and the people killed and injured in the attack were the workers of the NGO. However, Naseeruddin Hamdard rejected this notion. |