Taliban say they have killed Indian hostage in Afghanistan

 

KANDAHAR/HYDERABAD: A spokesman for Taliban militants who kidnapped an Indian engineer in Afghanistan said on Sunday they had killed their hostage as he tried to escape.

 

"The Indian engineer was in a room with one guard, he attacked the guard and punched him, went out of the building running as other mujahedin shot him dead," Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said.
    
The hostage, K Suryanarayana, was working as a contractor for the Afghan mobile telephone network Roshan.

 

He was abducted on Friday in Zabul province on the main highway linking the capital Kabul to the southern city of Kandahar, birthplace of the Taliban movement.

 

A pall of gloom has descended on the residence of Suryanarayana, who was abducted by the Taliban in Afghanistan, after the Taliban claimed they had shot dead an Indian hostage as he tried to escape.
    
The family members were inconsolable after the Afghan police found the headless body of a man. The police said the process is on to ascertain if the body was that of the Indian engineer.
    
The engineer's family had on Saturday appealed to the abductors to release him.