Taliban has hanged a dead body from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, a witness says
The Taliban has hanged a dead body from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, a witness said, in a gruesome display that signalled a return to some of the Taliban's methods of the past.
Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the side of the square, told The Associated Press that four bodies were brought to the square and three bodies were moved to other squares in the city to be displayed. Seddiqi said the Taliban announced in the square that the four were caught taking part in a kidnapping and were killed by police.
Ziaulhaq Jalali, a Taliban appointed district police chief in Herat, said later that Taliban members rescued a father and son who had been abducted by four kidnappers after an exchange of gunfire. He said a Taliban fighter and a civilian were wounded by the kidnappers but “the four were killed in crossfire.”
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