Beheaded Bodies Of Four Abducted Afghans Found, Taliban Claims Responsibility
Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Staff Writer Kandahar, Afghanistan (AHN) - An official on Friday said the decapitated bodies of four Afghan men were discovered days after some armed men abducted them. A Taliban spokesman has since claimed responsibility for the beheadings. According to reports, local residents found two bodies on Thursday near their homes in the southern Zabul provincial district of Shahjoy, and two more near the same area on Friday, according to the Zabul governor's spokesman, Ali Khail. Khail says, the men had been kidnapped at gunpoint from the village of Chinoh. A supposed Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousof Ahmadi, contacted the AP by telephone and said the Taliban killed the men because they had been allegedly spying for Afghan and coalition forces. However, the claim could not be immediately verified. Khail says Police had been sent to the area to investigate the deaths, but he denied the Taliban claims that the victims were spies, saying the men killed "were civilians who had no link to the Afghan government or the coalition." In another incident on Friday, the Danish central army command reports a convoy including Danish army commander-in-chief Hans Jesper Helso was hit by a roadside bomb near Feyzabad in northeast Afghanistan. The attack on the Danish convoy slightly injured one soldier and a light-armored patrol vehicle was damaged. Helso was in Afghanistan on a routine insp |
