Three Afghans, three Spanish tourists killed in Bamyan shooting

The number of foreign tourists has increased 120 percent year on year in 2023, reaching nearly 5,200, according to official figures [File: Wakil Kohsar/AFP]

Three Afghan nationals and three Spanish tourists were killed in central Afghanistan’s Bamyan province, the Taliban government has said, as it raised the death toll from the attack in a market.

On Saturday, the government said that the bodies of the three Afghans and three Spanish tourists were transported to the capital, Kabul.