Nine non-combatants were killed in a Taliban attack in eastern Nangarhar...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais...
on Wednesday, local officials said on Thursday.
The incident happened last night in Dowr Baba district of Nangarhar when Taliban attacked on a house in which a wedding ceremony was being held. Nine non-combatants were killed and five others were maimed, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a front man for governor of Nangarhar told TOLOnews.
Police have started investigation about incident, Mr Abdulzai said.
The Taliban have not yet commented about the attack.
| Of course not. It makes them look bad to the locals, so they're going to pretend it didn't happen, and anyway they didn't do it. Possibly some five year olds somewhere are fooled by this. |