1 Killed In Laghman After Taliban Officials Open Fire At Wedding Caravan For Playing Music

Sources told Afghanistan International that a passer-by was killed in a Taliban shootout at a convoy of vehicles ferrying people participating in a wedding in Qarghayi district of Laghman province.

Sources said that Taliban members opened fire at the convoy as they were playing music in the vehicles.

Sources said on Monday that the dead man was a student of Nangarhar University's Faculty of Agriculture.

The local Taliban authorities in Laghman have not yet reacted to the shootout at the wedding convoy.

Earlier in 2021, the Taliban officials had opened fire at two wedding ceremonies in Jalalabad city for playing music, as a result of which three people were killed and several others were injured.

After this incident, the Taliban said that the members of the group were not the perpetrators of the murder, but that unknown armed persons had misused the name of the Taliban.

After returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban has banned music broadcasts across Afghanistan. In the latest case, the Taliban's Ministry of Vice and Virtue announced on Saturday, that the officials of the ministry, while monitoring wedding parties in Parwan province prevented playing of music there, which the group considers as forbidden.