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Officials Say Taliban Behead Four Afghans For Alleged Spying


Officials in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province say Taliban militants have beheaded four Afghan civilians whom they believed had been spying for the Afghan government.

Officials of the provincial administration said the bodies of the men were discovered in the Washir district of Helmand.

No comment on the reported beheadings was immediately available from a Taliban representative.

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