Taliban say kill Afghan vote candidate

KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents killed a kidnapped
candidate in September 18 elections as well as a senior
district official and three policemen on Saturday, a Taliban
spokesman said.

The candidate, Khan Mohammad, running for a seat on a
provincial council in Kandahar province, was captured along
with a district chief and three policemen when they were
traveling together in the south of the country on Friday,
police said.

“We have killed them. We shot them,” the Taliban spokesman,
Abdul Latif Hakimi, told Reuters by telephone from an
undisclosed location.

There was no independent confirmation.