Taliban hangs dead body from crane in Afghan city’s main square

Name: 95 per cent of Afghans face starvation due to ongoing drought and poor economy
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A pharmacy owner in Herat said four bodies were brought to the square and three bodies were moved to other squares in the city to be displayed

The militant group said that the four were caught taking part in a kidnapping and were killed by police

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Taliban fighters stand guard along a road in Herat, Afghanistan. Photo: AFP

Associated Press

Published: 7:57pm, 25 Sep 2021Updated: 11:18pm, 25 Sep 2021

The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane in the main square of Herat city in western Afghanistan, a witness said on Saturday, in a gruesome display that signalled a return to some of the group’s methods of the past.

Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy on the side of the square, said 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 the fighters 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 [kidnappers] were killed in crossfire.”

Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, one of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan, said this week that the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.

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95 per cent of Afghans face starvation due to ongoing drought and poor economy

Since the Taliban overran Kabul on August 15 and seized control of the country, Afghans and the world have been watching to see whether they will recreate their harsh rule of the late 1990s.