By AFP and RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi: Taliban authorities confirmed on September 12 that civilians had been shot dead that day in an attack in central Afghanistan but provided no further details. “Unknown gunmen have opened fire and have killed the civilians,” Abdul Matin Qani, a spokesman for the Taliban’s Interior Ministry told the AFP news agency, adding that further details on the attack in Daykundi Province would be announced later. Local sources told RFE/RL that unidentified armed men on motorbikes shot dead at least 12 Hazara civilians at the border of Afghanistan’s Ghor and Daykundi provinces. Click here to read more (external link).
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