7 wedding singers shot dead
23/09/2005 23:42
Mazar-i-Sharif - A band of seven wedding singers was shot and killed on their way home from a late night performance in northern Afghanistan, said police on Friday.
Mohammed Azam of the police said the men were ambushed as they were returning to Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital city of northern Balkh province, after a show in Chimtal district.
Azam said: "Unknown armed men ambushed their vehicle and fired at them and killed them.
"It doesn't seem the attackers were thieves because they did not steal anything, not even the car."
He said: "They might be personal enemies of the seven or some extremist group, but it is premature to tell."
Sparsely populated Balkh was usually free of the Taliban-linked violence that plagued southern Afghanistan, but was home to various rival warlords.
The fundamentalist Taliban outlawed several Afghan traditions after they took power in 1996, including hiring performers to sing and play traditional instruments at weddings, parties and other functions.
The custom made a strong comeback almost immediately after the Taliban were toppled in a United States-led campaign launched in late 2001 after the hardliners refused to hand over Osama bin Laden for the September 11 attacks.
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Mazar-i-Sharif - A band of seven wedding singers was shot and killed on their way home from a late night performance in northern Afghanistan, said police on Friday.
Mohammed Azam of the police said the men were ambushed as they were returning to Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital city of northern Balkh province, after a show in Chimtal district.
Azam said: "Unknown armed men ambushed their vehicle and fired at them and killed them.
"It doesn't seem the attackers were thieves because they did not steal anything, not even the car."
He said: "They might be personal enemies of the seven or some extremist group, but it is premature to tell."
Sparsely populated Balkh was usually free of the Taliban-linked violence that plagued southern Afghanistan, but was home to various rival warlords.
The fundamentalist Taliban outlawed several Afghan traditions after they took power in 1996, including hiring performers to sing and play traditional instruments at weddings, parties and other functions.
The custom made a strong comeback almost immediately after the Taliban were toppled in a United States-led campaign launched in late 2001 after the hardliners refused to hand over Osama bin Laden for the September 11 attacks.
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