Taliban in Afghanistan behead 17 as punishment for dance party
From Kandahar, Afghanistan comes a gruesome story. The Taliban beheaded seventeen party-goers, including two women dancers, in Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand province as punishment for a party was held on Sunday night with music and mixed-sex dancing.
The bodies were found on Monday in a house near the Musa Qala district where a party was held on Sunday night with music and mixed-sex dancing, said district governor Nimatullah.
Men and women do not usually mingle in Afghanistan unless they are related, and parties involving both genders are rare and kept secret.
The killings came at the beginning of a violent 24 hours for NATO and Afghan authorities in which 10 Afghan soldiers were killed in a mass insurgent attack, also in Helmand, while two US soldiers were slain by a rogue Afghan soldier.
“The victims threw a late-night dance and music party when the Taliban attacked” on Sunday night, Nimatullah, who only has one name, told Reuters.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility.