The Taliban hung the bodies of four kidnappers from cranes after killing them during a shootout in Afghanistan‘s western city of Herat on Saturday, a senior official said.
Herat province’s deputy governor Mawlawi Shir Ahmad Muhajir said the men’s corpses were displayed in various public areas on the same day as the killings to teach a “lesson” that kidnapping will not be tolerated. Graphic images posted to social media showed bloody bodies on the back of a pick-up truck while a crane hoisted one man up.
A crowd of people looked on as armed Taliban fighters gathered around the vehicle. Another video showed a man suspended from a crane at a major roundabout in Herat with a sign on his chest reading: “Abductors will be punished like this”.
One kidnapper was killed and three others were arrested, he said, although in another case the Taliban “failed and the abductors were able to make money”. It saddened us a lot because while we are in Herat, our people are being abducted,” Muhajir said.
“In order to be a lesson for other kidnappers not to kidnap or harass anyone, we hung them in the squares of the city and made this clear to everyone that anyone who steals or abducts or does any action against our people will be punished
Source: IOL
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