Gunmen kill nine, kidnap 170 passengers from Afghan buses

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Gunmen in Afghanistan killed nine bus passengers and kidnapped 170 on Tuesday outside the northern city of Kunduz in an attack blamed on Taliban insurgents, a provincial official said.

The attackers stopped three buses on a road and ordered the passengers out, shot dead nine of them and kidnapped the rest, said Massoum Hashemi, deputy police chief of Kunduz.

Government forces later freed most of the abducted passengers in a rescue operation.

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The identity of the victims was not immediately clear but a campaign of kidnappings against Shi'ite Hazaras in the past year has became a source of ethnic tension, fueling concern about sectarian violence.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-kidnapping-idUSKCN0YM0S3

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World | Tue May 31, 2016 4:29am EDT

[Feeling the Bern]

1. More blood on Bush's hands. Thanks for destabilizing a region and two countries, AWOL McFuckstick.

[maxsolomon]

2. If it was "stable" prior to 9/11, it was stable in the hands of the very monsters

that perpetrated this attack.

Sunnis terrorize Shia all over the destabilized region, and we didn't start that. It goes back centuries. We just helped ramp it up.