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Seven shot dead in pre-election Taliban attack
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-09-14 17:25
Taliban militants have shot dead seven Afghan civilians after finding a
registration document for Sunday's elections in their car, a provincial governor
said.
The attack on Tuesday in the central province of Uruzgan is the latest in a
wave of violence ahead of the parliamentary and provincial council polls which
has left more than 1,000 people dead this year.
Governor Jan Mohammad Khan told AFP that the rebels stopped a vehicle with
seven people inside in Gizab district.
"They searched everybody, and found an official document, a car registration
for election day, on one of them. Then the Taliban killed the seven people,"
Khan said.
Separately on Tuesday Taliban guerillas hanged an intelligence official in
the southeastern province of Zabul, a known hotbed for the ousted hardline
militia, police said.
"A man named Hamidullah who works for the district intelligence department
was captured and killed by the Taliban. He was hanged," local police chief
Ghulam Aidar told AFP.
The Taliban have vowed to sabotage preparations for Afghanistan's first
parliamentary elections for more than 30 years. But last month they said they
would not target voting booths on polling day to avoid civilian casualties.
US-led forces ousted the Taliban in late 2001 for failing to hand over Osama
bin Laden after the September 11 attacks on New York and
Washington.
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