Joe McDowell, 38, from Perth, was visiting Bamiyan when he was shot by a gunman who killed three Spaniards and three Afghans
An Australian adventure tourist targeted in a deadly shooting in central Afghanistan thought he would die after coming face to face with an
McDowell, an engineer from Perth, said the gunman, who was armed with an AK-47 Kalashnikov rifle, fired into a shop that some of the group was in before turning on the van.“I flung the door open and ran ... Then I felt a slap on the arse.” “That was the moment I thought ‘I might die here’. I wasn’t scared. It all happened too quickly. I had too much adrenaline.”
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