(KUNA) -- As many as 17 people, including a Turkish engineer, were killed in fresh violence in different parts of Afghanistan on Tuesday.Turkish engineer Mustafa Asimi, who was kidnapped by Taliban militants in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand last month, was executed today, Taliban purported spokesman Yousaf Ahmadi claimed on Tuesday. Ahmadi said the road construction company, with which the engineer was working, had time and again asked to wrap their business in Afghanistan; however, they did not respond. The execution was ordered by Taliban shura (an assembly of religious scholars), the spokesman added.
Separately, a bomb went off at a wedding party in Parwan province, situated some 35 kilometres north of Kabul, which resulted in the killing of five women. Police said several children were injured in the explosion. It has yet to be ascertained it was a terrorist attack or the explosion was caused by an old mine. Police chief of the province Abdul Rahman Sayeddkheli said some old enmity might be involved in the attack.