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Taleban 'kill' S Korean hostage | Taleban 'kill' S Korean hostage |
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A Taleban spokesman in Afghanistan says the group has killed one of 23 South Korean hostages it is holding. | |
The spokesman said the male captive was shot dead because the Afghan authorities had refused to release imprisoned Taleban fighters. | |
A BBC correspondent in Kabul says there has been no confirmation of the claim. | |
Meanwhile, a German journalist and his Afghan translator have been released a day after their capture in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. | |
Taleban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told Reuters news agency on Wednesday: "Since Kabul's administration did not listen to our demand and did not free our prisoners, the Taleban shot dead a male Korean hostage." | |
The 23 Koreans were abducted in Ghazni, south-west of Kabul, on Thursday. | The 23 Koreans were abducted in Ghazni, south-west of Kabul, on Thursday. |
The hostages - most of them women - are members of a Christian aid group. | |
In a separate development, the release of a German journalist and his Afghan translator and driver was secured through talks with tribal elders. | |
No ransom was paid, said the governor of Kunar province, Shalizai Didar. | |
The governor said he had spoken to the freed men by phone and that they were in good health. | |
A senior security official in Kunar told the BBC that the German journalist had disappeared when visiting the village of Sangar in Wattapour district. | |
Two other Germans were kidnapped in central Afghanistan last week. The body of one was later found by a road. |