Kabul: A spokesman for the interior ministry said Friday that a gunman had opened fire on a Sufi shrine in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan, killing ten people.
According to Abdul Matin Qani of the ministry, “ten people were killed when a man opened fire on Sufis participating in a weekly ritual at a shrine in a remote area of Nahrin district.”
According to a Nahrin resident who knows assault victims, devotees flocked to the Sayed Pacha Agha shrine on Thursday night.
On condition of anonymity, he stated that “a man shot at the dozen worshippers” after they had started a Sufi chant.
“When people arrived for morning prayers, they discovered the bodies,” he said.
