HERAT: Suspected militants on Monday freed 27 deminers, who were kidnapped at gunpoint last week in Afghanistan, after beheading some of their captives, a local official said.
Thirty-one deminers were kidnapped last Wednesday instead of the twenty-eight policemen earlier reported, according to a spokesman for the governor of the western Farah province. He said that four of them had been beheaded over the weekend, instead of the seven the provincial police chief had reported.
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The remaining 27 men, working for the Demining Agency for Afghanistan (DAFA), a local charity based in the southern province of Kandahar, were released after mediation with tribal elders and officials, the spokesman, Naqibullah Shafee, said. "Twenty-seven of the abducted deminers were freed today through efforts of tribal elders and government officials and they went home today," he told AFP.
| A happier ending than usual. For that all involved can be grateful. |
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