MEP: Local officials in western Herat province say a man has brutally shot dead five members of his wife’s family on Friday near the Khwaja Abdullah Ansari shrine.
Herat police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada said the incident took place in the afternoon that resulted from an aggressive family dispute.
The attacker was arrested with an AK-47 assault rifle, he added.
“The dead included the accused father in law, his three sons and the killer’s son in law.”
They victims were reportedly members of the attacker’s wife’s family.
Further investigations are underway.
Civil hospital spokesman Mohammad Rafique Sherazai confirmed receiving five dead bodies and an injured person at the hospital. He said the injured person’s condition was critical.
The report comes as on Wednesday two civilians had been killed by unknown gunmen in Central Baghlan district of northern Baghlan province.
