Samangan, National Resistance Front: At 6 pm last night, five residents of the Dara-e-Suf Bala district of Samangan were travelling to Balkh when Taliban militants shot them.
The vehicle carrying the passengers was stopped by the Taliban while crossing the "Keshandeh" district of Balkh province. The six people were shot, including the driver of the car, as a result of which five of them were killed and one of the passengers was injured.