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Afghan official: 21 dead, 8 wounded in wedding gunfight

AKIPRESS.COM - gunmen A shootout at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan has left 21 people dead and eight wounded, an official said Monday, reports AP.

Abdul Jabar Perdili, police chief of Baghlan province, said a gunfight broke out between two groups attending the wedding in Dih Salah district late Sunday. He said that most of the dead were wedding guests and at least two of the wounded were younger than 18 years old.

Perdili's spokesman, Jaweed Basharat, had earlier said that 10 people were wounded. Conflicting accounts are common in the chaotic aftermath of violent incidents.

The police chief of Dih Salah, Col. Gulistan Qasani, said  the clash broke out after a relative of a provincial police official was assassinated during the wedding party. He said some 400 people had gathered at a private house for the wedding of a local mullah's son.

"When we collected the bodies it was difficult to determine who were the shooters and who were not, because I could not find any weapons," Qasani said.

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