The victims - including three women and a child - were from the minority Hazara community, which has been targeted by the Taliban in the past.
Growing numbers of civilians have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
According to the UN, nearly 5,000 civilians were killed in the first six months of 2014 - a rise of almost a quarter on the same period in 2013.
Abdul Hai Khatibi, a spokesman for the governor of Ghor province, told the AFP news agency that the attackers had "ordered all passengers to stand in one line, and then they shot them dead one by one".
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