"Herat: Suspected Taliban gunmen stopped two vehicles in central Afghanistan and shot dead 15 passengers at the side of the road, officials said on Friday, in the latest attack to highlight the growing civilian toll from violence.
Only one man escaped after the gunmen held up two vehicles on a road in Ghor province and shot dead 11 men, three women and one child.
"Armed gunmen stopped two vehicles and shot dead the passengers," Abdul Hai Khatibi, spokesman for the governor of Ghor province, told AFP.
"They ordered all passengers to stand in one line, and then they shot them dead one by one."
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On Thursday, gunmen in Afghanistan shot dead two Finnish women working for a Christian aid charity in the western city of Herat.
A local governor said the women had been travelling by taxi when gunmen on a motorcycle fired on their vehicle.