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Taliban condemns ISIS latest execution video of Afghan prisoners

Kabul, Aug 12: The Afghan Taliban has condemned a barbaric video released by the Islamic State (ISIS) militants. The video contains footage of ISIS militants killing ten blindfolded Afghan prisoners by blowing them up with explosives.

The video claimed to be shot in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province in June this year. ptors. In the video ISIS militants were seen dragging the blindfolded victims where the bombs are buried and asked to kneel on the same place. Later it was exploded by the militants.

Taliban condemns ISIS execution video

The video gives a glimpse into the struggle the Taliban is waging against Isis for supremacy of the Islamist insurgency in Afghanistan, reported the Guardian.

Groups associated with Isis have made growing inroads in Afghanistan in recent years, attracting fighters and support away from the Taliban by preaching a more extreme form of Islamist militancy.

After showing the explosion which killed the men, the video ends with a message in Arabic urging local people to heed the lesson. "Do you have a taste for digging your own graves? Do you want to be beheaded?" a man's voice asks.

OneIndia News

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