- Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi said four dead bodies were hanged from a square in Herat
- He said three more bodies were moved to other squares in the city to be hanged
- Taliban claimed the four were caught taking part in kidnapping of a businessman
- It is unclear whether they were killed in a fight with police or after their arrests
The Taliban has hanged the dead bodies of alleged kidnappers in four squares across the Afghan city of Herat after killing them during a shootout, eyewitnesses have claimed.
Wazir Ahmad Seddiqi, who runs a pharmacy beside the main square in Herat, said four dead bodies were brought to the square and were hanged from a crane.
He said three bodies were moved to other squares in the city in western Afghanistan to be displayed, in a gruesome move that signaled a return to some of the Taliban’s past methods.
The Taliban claimed that the four were caught taking part in a kidnapping of a businessman and his son on Saturday and were then killed by police in a shootout.
Herat province’s deputy governor Mawlawi Shir Ahmad Muhajir said the men’s corpses were displayed in various public areas on the same day as the killings to teach a ‘lesson’ that kidnapping will not be tolerated.
Horrifying pictures shared to social media show an accused kidnapper’s dead body hanged from a crane, with a sign attached to him, while hoards of people watched on from below and nearby buildings.
The sign on his chest read: ‘Abductors will be punished like this.’
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