Taliban say killed 4 foreigners in Afghanistan

SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan, Mar 13 (Reuters) A Taliban spokesman today said four kidnapped foreigners had been executed on the orders of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

The Taliban said they kidnapped the four in the Afghan south on Saturday. The Taliban said three were Albanian and one was German.

An official at the ECOLOG services company in Kabul said four of its workers had gone missing but said they were all Albanian.

Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said the four had been killed and their bodies had been dumped in the Kandahar-Helmand area of the south.

There was no independent confirmation of the claim.

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