Gun-Toting Taliban At Kabul Zoo Mingle With Families, Kids
NDTV
A group of gun-toting Taliban members offered their rifles to children as young as eight so they could pose with them for photos at Kabul Zoo.
Taliban soldiers cradling AK-47s and M16 assault rifles mingle among families at Kabul Zoo, a novelty experience for many of the young fighters from rural Afghanistan.
As visitors set up picnic spots in the shaded grounds, enjoying ice creams and salted pomegranate seeds, heavily armed Taliban gunmen peer into the enclosures housing lions, leopards, camels, wolves, ostriches and macaques.
After years of fighting in the countryside, the capture of the capital was the first time many had entered a large city, let alone a zoo.
They take selfies and pose for group photos, but the relative tranquillity is upended suddenly when one of them grabs a deer by its antlers and his friends roar with laughter.
