The boys were reportedly abducted in the southern province of Kandahar
Two children have been beheaded by the Taliban, an Afghan official has claimed.
The boys, aged 10 and 16, were foraging for food from rubbish bins close to a police checkpoint, when they were reportedly abducted by insurgents.
Afghanistan-based journalist Mustafa Kazemi cites a press release from the Kandahar governor's spokesman as stating: "The boys were taken away by the Taliban... and beheaded in a horrific way."
The pair were returning to their homes in the southern province of Kandahar when they were abducted on Sunday. Their bodies and severed heads were recovered on Monday.
They have been named as Khan and Hameedullah.
It adds they had apparently been killed and decapitated "as a warning to villagers not to cooperate with the Afghan government."
The boys, aged 10 and 16, were foraging for food from rubbish bins close to a police checkpoint, when they were reportedly abducted by insurgents. Afghanistan-based journalist Mustafa Kazemi cites a press release from the Kandahar governor's spokesman as stating: "The boys were taken away by the Taliban... and beheaded in a horrific way."
The pair were returning to their homes in the southern province of Kandahar when they were abducted on Sunday. Their bodies and severed heads were recovered on Monday.
They have been named as Khan and Hameedullah.
It adds they had apparently been killed and decapitated "as a warning to villagers not to cooperate with the Afghan government."
