Kabul, Aug. 7: The Taliban said on Saturday they had killed “Christian missionaries” working in remote northern Afghanistan where the bullet-riddled bodies of six Americans, one German and a British national were found.
Three women were among the group of foreign eye doctors working for the aid organisation International Assistance Mission (IAM), said its executive director Mr Dirk Frans.
“Five men, all American, and three women, an American, German and Brit were killed,” Mr Frans said.
Head of Badakhshan provincial police, Mr Aqa Noor Kintoz, said the group had been lined up and shot in dense forest, according to the testimony of a sole Afghan survivor.
The Taliban later claimed responsibility for the killings.