Foreign tourists attacked in western Afghanistan

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Foreign tourists attacked in western Afghanistan

Governor of Herat province says eight Britons, three Americans and
one German among group ambushed by Taliban

Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul and Luke Harding in London
Thursday 4 August 2016 14.58 BST

A group of western tourists on a sightseeing adventure tour of Afghanistan have been ambushed by Taliban gunmen, Afghan officials said on Thursday, with at least six people wounded.

The foreigners were travelling in the Chesht-e-Sharif district in the western province of Herat with an Afghan army escort when militants opened fire on the convoy. The group were heading for Herat city, the country’s ancient cultural centre, close to the Iranian border.

A spokesman for Herat’s governor said the tourists included eight Britons, three US citizens and one German. Two of the British citizens were believed to be from Scotland.

A military spokesman said the attack left at least five foreign tourists and their Afghan driver wounded. Sources with knowledge of the local insurgency said the Taliban’s shadow governor in Chesht-e Sharif, Haji Abdurrahman, was assumed to be behind it.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/04/foreign-tourists-attacked-in-western-afghanistan-says-officials

[COLGATE4]

1. Western tourism in Afghanistan. Now THERE's

an idea that just can't miss. In addition to the scenic bus ride and the camel meat lunch you also get to see - and even be in - a real live firefight between the Taliban and the Taliban dressed in Afghan Army uniforms.

[Nitram]

2. Tourists in Afghanistan? What could go wrong?