Gunmen kill 3 Western tourists, translator in central Afghanistan

FILE - An Afghan man performs ablution before prayers at Band-E-amir in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, Aug. 31, 2005. Unknown gunmen killed four people May 17, 2024, in Bamiyan's central market, Taliban authorities said.

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Friday that unknown assailants fatally shot three Western tourists and their local translator in the central city of Bamiyan. The late-afternoon shooting in a busy central market also injured four people, including a foreigner, a spokesman for the Taliban-led Afghan Interior Ministry said.