KABUL, Afghanistan: An unknown gunman shot dead six local workers from the main American military base north of Afghanistan’s capital and wounded three others, an Afghan official said Friday.
The nine workers, all Afghan nationals, were on their way home late Thursday when a gunman riding a motorcycle opened fire on them about 500 meters (about a quarter mile) from Bagram air base, Parwan provincial governor’s spokeswoman Wahida Shahkar said.
Shahkar said the gunman escaped.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed said the group had nothing to do with the shooting.
The Daesh affiliate is active in northern areas of Afghanistan and on April 9 the IS claimed responsibility for firing five rockets from a vehicle at Bagram air base. There were were no casualties.
Shahkar said Afghan national security forces began an investigation to find the person who attacked the workers, who provide cleaning services at the base.
The Afghan government and Taliban are in the process of exchanging prisoners as part of a peace deal signed by the US and the Taliban on Feb. 29 in Doha.
The release of up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners and 1,000 government personnel ahead of intra-Afghan negotiations is a condition of the US-Taliban deal.
Gunman shoots dead 6 Afghan workers outside main US base
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Gunman shoots dead 6 Afghan workers outside main US base
- The gunman escaped after the shooting
- Shahkar said Afghan national security forces began an investigation to find the person who attacked the workers
Senegal ex-minister faces $2.7m embezzlement probe
- At least five of Sall’s ministers have since been referred to the west African country’s High Court of Justice
- The National Assembly voted on Friday to refer former communications and digital affairs minister Moussa Bocar Thiam to the court
DAKAR: Senegal’s parliament on Friday referred a former minister to a special court for allegedly embezzling millions in taxpayers’ cash, in the latest case targeting a member of ex-president Macky Sall’s government.
Since unseating Sall in March 2024, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko have repeatedly accused their predecessors of mismanaging the public purse, pledging to bring them to justice.
At least five of Sall’s ministers have since been referred to the west African country’s High Court of Justice, which is responsible for trying former members of government over crimes committed while in office.
The National Assembly, which is overwhelmingly dominated by Faye and Sonko’s ruling Pastef party, voted on Friday to refer former communications and digital affairs minister Moussa Bocar Thiam to the court over a contract for a digital technology park.
According to a parliamentary report, the contract’s execution showed “serious indications and presumptions of a nature to justify criminal proceedings against Minister Moussa Bocar Thiam for criminal conspiracy, embezzlement of public funds to the tune of 1,476,482,766 CFA francs ($2.7 million) and money laundering.”
The ex-minister replied on social media to denounce the process as “without legal basis,” adding that he would fight the matter in court.
After a hearing, the High Court of Justice’s investigating committee will decide whether to bring Thiam to trial. The tribunal’s rulings cannot be appealed or reviewed.
