21 Killed at Afghan Wedding

A shootout at a wedding late Sunday in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province left 21 people dead and several wounded.  "The clash broke out after a relative of a provincial police official was assassinated during the wedding party," Colonel Gulistan Qasani, the police chief of Dih Salah, told the Associated Press. The police chief said hostilities between the two groups involved in the gunfight had been simmering for many years. Qasani estimated 400 people had...

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