| Suspected Taliban gunmen killed at least 10 men in southern Afghanistan after finding that they had registered for national elections, local officials said Sunday. Rozi Khan, the Uruzgan police chief, told The Associated Press that assailants stopped the van on a road about 20 miles from the provincial capital, Tirin Kot. The gunmen opened fire after they searched the documents of the 12 men inside and found that they had registered to vote. Two men escaped and alerted police, who found the 10 bodies but have made no arrests. Obaidullah Khan, the top political administrator in Uruzgan district, confirmed the attack but said 16 people had died, and just one man had survived. It was impossible to immediately account for the discrepancy. Obaidullah Khan said about six or seven attackers had launched the assault, while others hid in rocks nearby. |