Taliban say kill Afghan vote candidate
Posted on: Saturday, 3 September 2005, 02:22 CDT
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.
Source: REUTERS
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