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The Islamic State group on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack targeting tourists in Afghanistan that killed three Spaniards and three Afghans. The jihadist group said in a statement on its Telegram channels that “fighters shot at Christian tourists and their Shiite companions with machine guns” in the mountainous city of Bamyan on Friday. The tour group was fired on while shopping in a market in Bamyan, around 180 kilometres (110 miles) west of the capital Kabul. The jihadists said they attacked a “bus of tourists who are citizens of coalition countries”, referring to a US-led coaliti…