Three Spanish tourists were killed and at least one Spaniard was injured in an attack by gunmen in Afghanistan’s central Bamyan province, Spain’s foreign ministry said on Friday.
Earlier on Friday, Taliban interior ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qaniee had said that three foreign tourists and one Afghan citizen had been killed in the attack.
Four foreign nationals and three Afghans were also injured in the attack when gunmen opened fire, he added. Four people have been arrested, he said.
US special envoy for Afghanistan, Thomas West, says the United States is deeply saddened to hear about the shooting attack in Bamiyan, “Our thoughts are with those who lost their loved ones. Violence is not the answer,” West said on X.
The EU delegation in Afghanistan strongly condemned the armed attack on a group of foreign tourists in Bamyan province
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has also “condemned” this attack. Stanasser Kanani, the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, has called this attack “terrorist”.
After the rule of the Taliban, this is the most serious attack against foreign tourists in one of the important tourist cities of Afghanistan.