Local sources told the Afghanistan International Pashto that two officers of the Afghan National Army in the previous government of Afghanistan were killed in Dawlat Shah district of Laghman province.
According to these sources, Taliban members killed them for being involved in causing instability in this district.
Sources stressed that the two officers died when they were undergoing torture by Taliban members.
Meanwhile, the Taliban’s police chief in Laghman province in a statement said that two former soldiers were killed in clashes with members of the group. In this Taliban statement, they have been accused of destabilising the Dawlat Shah district.
Sources close to the families of the two officers said that they did not cooperate with any armed group and were engaged in farming at their villages after the fall of the previous government.
These sources added that the Taliban refused to hand over the bodies of the two officers to the local elders.
They said that the Taliban members tortured the two soldiers and then hung their bodies in public for people to watch.
The images received by Afghanistan International showcase signs of brutal torture on the bodies of these victims.
In the past few months, the Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF), one of the anti-Taliban armed groups, had announced several operations in the Dawlat Shah district.
