Insurgents in southern Afghanistan hanged an eight-year-old boy six days after they abducted him, the Afghan government said.
The boy’s captors had demanded that his father, a police officer, supply them with a police vehicle and he refused, said a statement from President Hamid Karzai’s office. The militants hanged the boy on Friday in Helmand province’s Gereshk district.
“President Karzai both strongly condemns this act and rejects it as a brutal and cowardly crime that is not acceptable in any religion or [...]
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