Two international troops were reported killed and the bodies of 11 men, some beheaded, were found on Friday in rising violence across Afghan-istan. Mohammed Khan, deputy police chief in Uruzgan province, said a villager in the Bagh Char area of Khas Uruzgan district spotted the bodies in a field and called the police.
“They were killed beca-use the Taliban said they were spying for the government, working for the government,” he said. The acting Uruzgan governor, Kh-udia Rahim, said five or six of the 11 victims had been beheaded.
Meanwhile, Nato reported that one member of the int-ernational force was killed in an insurgent attack on Friday in eastern Afgha-nistan and another died following a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan on Thursday. Their deaths brought to 82 the number of international service members killed so far in June, the deadliest month of the nearly nine-year-old war.
Also in the south, a joint force of Afghan security fo-rces and international troo-ps killed a mid-level Taliban commander and other insurgents who were planting a bomb near the provincial capital of Kandahar.
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Russia mayor wife in land grabbing caseVinay Shukla
Moscow
June 25: Russia’s richest woman, construction magnate and the wife of the mayor of Moscow has been accused of grabbing prime land allocated to several foreign missions, including Indian embassy in the capital.
Russian foreign ministry has lodged a complaint with prosecutor general to probe into the takeover of plots allocated to foreign diplomatic missions and transferring their ownership to Yuri Luzhkov’s wife Elena Baturina, web-based Gazeta.Ru reported.
Baturina is owner of investment and construction corporation Inteco wh-ich is involved in constructing elite residential buildings. “Baturina has been named in foreign ministry’s complaint, the concerned plots were earlier allocated to diplomatic missions of foreign countries, but later landed into ownership of other people. The probe is on and still not complete,” the website said. —PTI