Insurgents 'kidnap and kill' Afghan child, 8

Afghanistan - Insurgents have kidnapped and brutally killed the eight-year-old son of a local policeman in Afghanistan's volatile southern province of Helmand, the local government said in a statement on Saturday. The Taliban denied the claim but provincial authorities said the child was snatched on Friday in the Charkh Andaz area of Gereshk district, and killed after his father refused to comply with the Taliban's demands. "Insurgents told the child's father to surrender to them with his police vehicle and staff," said the statement from the Helmand governor's office.  "The child's father rejected the insurgents' demand and they violently killed his child." Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi rejected the claim as propaganda. "As far as we are concerned, we haven't done it. This is propaganda by the puppet Kabul government," he told AFP by telephone. In a similar incident in June last year, the Taliban reportedly hanged a seven-year-old boy in the same province, accusing him of spying for the government. Full Story>>
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