Taliban militants hang old woman and son
09/08/2006 - 07:11:14Suspected Taliban militants hanged an old woman and her son from a tree in southern Afghanistan, after accusing them of spying for the government, an official said today.
The 70-year old woman and her 30-year-old son, were killed yesterday in the village of Daigh, five miles north of Musa Qala town of the southern Helmand province, said Amir Mohammad Akhunzada, province’s deputy governor.
Akhunzada did not identify the two, but said that the woman’s son-in-law worked for the police in the district.
After the killing, the militants threatened to kill anyone working for the government in insurgency-wracked southern Afghanistan, Akhunzada said.
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