KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Unidentified gunmen have killed seven members of a family and wounded two others from the same family in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province, a local official said on Sunday.
The incident happened on Saturday morning in Imam Sahib district, where armed men broke into a house, killing four men, two women and a teenage girl and wounding two others, Mahbobollah Sayyedi, district chief of Imam Sahib told Xinhua.
The official noted that the reason behind the mass murder was not clear.
"An investigation was launched into the incident by the district police," Sayyedi said.
Similar incidents regularly take place in the province, 250 km north of the country's capital Kabul, and local authorities blame irresponsible armed groups for such incidents.
Ordinary Afghans usually suffer at the hands of irresponsible armed groups, particularly in remote areas, where the government control is weak.
