On September 3, 2021, the Taliban took over the checkpoint after Herat, Afghanistan. (Photo: Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
News organizations said on Saturday that at least 17 people were killed in the celebratory shooting in Kabul after Taliban sources said their militants had taken control of Panjshir, Afghanistan’s last anti-Islamic province.
Leaders who oppose the Taliban deny that the province has fallen.
The Shamshad news agency said that an “air shooting” in Kabul on Friday killed 17 people and injured 41 others. Tolo News Agency also gave a similar number of casualties.
Gurzada Sangar, a spokesman for a regional hospital in Jalalabad, the provincial capital, said that at least 14 people were injured in the celebratory shooting in Nangarhar Province, east of the capital.
The gunfire drew condemnation from the Taliban’s main spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid.
“Avoid shooting into the air, but thank God,” Mujahid said in a message on Twitter. “Bullets can harm civilians, so don’t shoot them unnecessarily.”
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