A weird story about a tourist killed in Afghanistan: American beaten to death in Panjsher
The incident took place while the American was travelling along with a woman to the Mokni valley of Khanj district for sightseeing.
Provincial council head, Atta Mohammad Amiri, told Pajhwok Afghan News the woman fell after crashing into a donkey.
As a result, the official said, the woman was about to fall into a deep ravine. The donkey driver came to her rescue. The tourist shot him injured, he said.
Outraged by the shooting, residents thrashed the American to death, he added.
“Villagers could not tolerate the attack on the man and attacked the American,” witness Mohammad Musa said. The US national was beaten with sticks and stoned him to death, he added.
It reminds me on the last lines of the Kipling poem The Young British Soldier
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Other news from Afghanistan.
My fellow Germans are losing the north to the Taliban writes Anna Badkhen:
Four weeks after the Taliban announced the beginning of their annual spring offensive, the insurgents have quietly taken over most of Balkh.
And as Graeme Smith reports the most brutal war lord in the south, Razik, just got a promotion. This will make already difficult negotiations with the Taliban even more difficult.
But back to the first story. A U.S. tourist in Panjshir? Really?