A shootout at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan has left 21 people dead and eight wounded, an official said on Monday.
Abdul Jabar Perdili, police chief of Baghlan province, said a gunfight broke out between two groups attending the wedding in Dih Salah district late yesterday. 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.