AFGHANISTAN'S Taliban militia shot dead five policemen they had abducted two months ago and strung up their bodies in trees in a village, a provincial police chief said.
Alerted to the bodies on display, police went today to the area in Uruzgan province and killed two rebels in a firefight, provincial police chief Juma Gul Himat said. The officers had been captured in Dihrawood district, where they were also hanged, he said.
The extremist Taliban have executed several Afghans who work with the administration and its international allies, putting their bodies on display as an example to others. |