GHAZNI: Around two-dozen people, including several civilians, were killed in the latest spate of Taliban-linked violence across Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday. Three civilians, one a woman, were killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in the eastern province of Khost, a troubled region
The Taliban on Saturday shot dead seven men, two of them truck drivers for a Western security firm, who had been kidnapped in the past week, police and a rebel spokesman said. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed, said the men — three policemen, two soldiers and the drivers — were killed after attempting to escape “from our jail”. Ghazni province police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahed told AFP that three bodies had been recovered.