KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban Islamic insurgents have amputated a hand and a foot of two private security guards because they worked for foreign troops, police and one of the victims said yesterday.
The Taliban confirmed they had cut off the right hand and left foot of each man but said the men were punished because they were highway robbers.
One of the victims was interviewed by Tolo TV from his hospital bed in the western city of Herat.
“They asked us to plant explosives in the company and said they would pay us for that, but we said no,” the man said.
“Then they took us to their court and their judges ruled that a hand and a foot be cut off.”
Female suicide bomber kills four
KHAR: A female suicide bomber blew herself up outside a hospital in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan yesterday and killed at least four people and wounded four, officials said.
The attack took place in Khar, the main town of Bajaur tribal district bordering Afghanistan, where the military has carried out several offensives against Al Qaeda-linked Taliban militants in the past.
Local administration official Abdul Haseeb confirmed that it was a female suicide bomber and the casualties.
“It was a female suicide bomber, about 18-20 years old, we have found her legs and head,” he said.
Afghan attack injures seven
Kabul: At least seven people — two civilians and five police — were injured following a suicide attack in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, local authorities said.
Sangin district governor Mohammad Daud Noorzai, confirming the report, said the incident took place around 11am local time, Khaama Press reported.
The officials added that the incident took place after a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a joint convoy of Afghan and coalition security forces in Sangin district on Friday.
In the meantime, a spokesman for the Taliban group, Qari Yosuf Ahmadi, claimed responsibility for the attack and said at least 10 Afghan security forces and 10 coalition forces were killed following the attack.
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