Afghanistan won its maiden SAFF Championship which is first ever international football title. The win was celebrated strangely with fans gun-firing in air.
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The night erupted into gunfire in Kabul and elsewhere across Afghanistan immediately after the match as fans fired AK-47 assault rifles – commonplace in many Afghan households – and even machine-guns into the air in celebration.
Witnesses said many of those firing into the air had been police. The gunfire panicked some residents, who feared an attack by the Taliban, and led to warning sirens being sounded in some foreign embassies.
The Afghan interior ministry and the intelligence agency congratulated the national football team in a statement. They had to send out a second statement on Thursday urging people to stop the celebratory gunfire because of the risk posed by bullets falling back to earth as told by Firstpost.
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