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Islamic State claims attack that killed three Spaniards in Afghanistan
The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) claimed today the authorship of the attack on Friday in the Afghan city of Bamiyan, in the center of the country, which killed three Spanish tourists and three Afghans.
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"The fighters attacked the Christian tourists and their Shiite companions (a branch of Islam despised by the IS) with machine guns, killing and wounding seven Christians and about five Hazara Shiites," the agency added.
Amaq also specified that "the Christians killed and wounded were of different nationalities, including countries such as Spain, Norway, Australia and Lithuania", indicating that the attack was "in response to the directives of the leaders of the Islamic State" to target Western citizens.
The same news note also mentioned that Bamiyan "is a major destination for Christian and pagan tourists because it contains statues of Buddha" which, according to Amaq, are "guarded" by the Taliban.
According to Bamiyan's director of information and culture, Safiullah Rayed, the attack - the first against foreign tourists since the Taliban came to power in 2021 - occurred on Friday, when the group "was inside a vehicle" during the visit to the city.
The Spanish fatalities are a woman and her daughter, both pharmacists, who ran pharmacies at Sants station, in Barcelona, and in Terrasa, respectively, and a 63-year-old retired engineer from Girona, who had worked for the chemical company Covestro at its factory in Tarragona.
The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, said on Saturday, in statements to the EFE agency, that the Spaniards who survived the attack saw that a person came out of an alley and shot "very clearly" at the group of tourists.
A team of Spanish diplomats arrived today in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and is working to speed up the procedures for repatriating the bodies of the three Spaniards who died in the attack.
Read Also: A man, a mother and daughter. The Spanish victims of the attack in Afghanistan (Portuguese version)
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