8am: The victims included four children, two women and one man, according to the Taliban-appointed spokesman of Balkh police. No information was immediately available on the reason and motives for this mass shooting. Since the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan, mass murders, revenge killings and criminal offenses in Afghanistan have increased unprecedentedly. Click here
Tolo News: Three massive graves containing dozens of bodies have been found in Mirza Olang valley in northern Sar-e-Pul province following a coordinated attack by militants in the area last week. TOLO news reporter Samim Faramarz says that according to residents, the majority of those buried in these graves were civilians and some of them members
Tolo News: Relatives of Yakawlang victims in Bamiyan on Saturday lashed out at Abdul Hakim Mujahid, an advisor to the High Peace Council (HPC), for what they say were insensitive comments that showed disrespect to their family members killed by Taliban in 2001. In 2001, Taliban opened fire on a gathering of people in central Bamiyan