Unidentified militants, reported to be Taliban and Isis, kill up to 50 men, women and children in ‘brutal attack’ on villageInsurgents have attacked a village in the northern Afghan province of Sar-e Pul, killing as many as 50 people, including women and children, according to officials. He said fighting was still going on but as many as 50 people, including children, women and elderly men, most of them members of the largely Shia Hazara community, may have been killed, according to village elders. Seven members of the Afghan security forces were also killed as well as a number of insurgents. Many details of the attack, including the identity of the insurgents, were not immediately clear. A senior government official in Kabul said that more security forces, including Afghan air force attack aircraft, were being sent to the scene.

Source: The Guardian August 06, 2017 18:16 UTC