At least 20 people have been killed by gunmen who opened fire at a wedding in Afghanistan’s north, officials said.
The
attack, apparently linked to a feud between two families, happened in
the Andarab district of Baghlan province on Sunday night. One family was
hosting a wedding as members of a rival family arrived and started
shooting at male guests, sources told Al Jazeera.
The bride and groom survived the attack.
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Most of
the dead were wedding guests aged from 14 years old to 60 years old,
Jaweed Basharat, the governor of Baghlan province, told the AP news
agency. He said 10 people were also injured.
The remote
district, with little government presence, has witnessed frequent
family disputes over land and other issues, Al Jazeera’s Qais Azimy
said. Deaths in such disputes are reported almost every month but the
number of casualties at the wedding was unusually high.
Police has sent reinforcement to the area, but gunfire was still reported there on Monday morning.
Fatal gun
fights and celebratory gun fire are common at Afghan weddings, which
have boomed in recent years in a country battered by nearly 40 years of
war.
Afghan
soldiers fired mortars at a wedding party in late December in the
southern province of Helmand, killing 17 women and children.
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