Gunmen kill nine, kidnap 170 passengers from Afghan buses
KUNDUZ- Gunmen in Afghanistan killed nine bus passengers and kidnapped 170 on Tuesday outside the northern city of Kunduz in an attack blamed on Taliban insurgents, a provincial official said.
The attackers stopped three buses on a road and ordered the passengers out, shot dead nine of them and kidnapped the rest, said Massoum Hashemi, deputy police chief of Kunduz.
Government forces later freed most of the abducted passengers in a rescue operation.
