Ousted Taleban remnants have killed a senior Afghan provincial official several days after kidnapping him, a Taleban spokesman said yesterday. Sarajuddin, chief of Zabul's power and water department, was killed after a group of Taleban seized him two days ago outside the town of Qalat, Zabul's provincial capital, the spokesman said. The murder was confirmed by a local police official. His killing is the third such murder of a local official in less than a week in the restive south, the former bastion of the Taleban. Taleban guerrillas fatally wounded Gen. Geranai, former deputy head of the Army Corps for the south in neighboring Kandahar province on Thursday, a day after killing a security official of adjacent Helmand province.