Posted on 01/23/2020 6:15:21 PM PST by robowombat
Taliban Kill 6 Members of Same Family, Including An Infant, Say Afghan Officials Representative Image Representative Image
The Taliban denied any involvement, saying the attack on Saturday was triggered by a personal dispute.
LAST UPDATED: JANUARY 19, 2020, 8:31 PM IST
Kabul: Afghan officials on Sunday said the Taliban executed six members of the same family, including an infant girl, in a remote village in the country's north.
The Taliban denied any involvement, saying the attack on Saturday was triggered by a personal dispute.
However, local Afghan officials said the family was accused by the Taliban of working in prostitution. The insurgents sentenced them to death for immoral acts, then stormed the house and opened fire, according to Jawed Bedar, a spokesman for Faryab province's governor.
The infant girl's mother and twin sister survived, but both of the child's legs had to be amputated, the spokesman said. He said Afghan security forces deployed to the village early Sunday and helped evacuate the two survivors to the hospital.
He said the Taliban attacked the government troops when they arrived. The ensuing gunbattle killed three Taliban members, who Bedar said were involved in the family's killing.
The Taliban control the village in Andkhoy district where the killings took place, making it difficult to accurately determine what happened, he added.
The Taliban now control or hold sway over roughly half of Afghanistan.
Locals in the area also disputed the accounts of prostitution. Instead, they claimed that a member of the slain family was a former Taliban militant who recently joined the peace process, according to Andkhoy district chief Sultan Mohammad Sanjer.
It was not immediately possible to reconcile the conflicting accounts.
The Taliban continue to stage near-daily attacks targeting Afghan and US forces, even as they hold peace talks with the US and have given the US envoy a document outlining their offer for a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan.
Scores of Afghan civilians have also been killed in the crossfire and by roadside bombs planted by militants.
We need to get out of there.
They must not have heroic furrys there to save the day.
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I agree 100%. Afghanistan will always be a shithole, there isn’t enough money on the entire planet to change it.
May the perps of these unspeakable crimes be doused in jet fuel and set on fire. I laugh at their screams of agony. Hanging or shooting them just isn’t enough.
Islam is a death cult.
The religion of piece was at it again...Hey Dems, if President Trump sends a mussel to the Taliban leader, are you going to condemn our President, you lowlife scum?
Don’t care.
Not our problem.
L
What a shithole
get out and watch the show, if it spills over contain it and continue to watch
Islam the leading cause of death in the Middle East
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