AFGHAN TALIBAN EXECUTE ELOPING PAIR - OFFICIAL

Taliban militants in Afghanistan publicly executed a man and girl for eloping when she was already engaged to marry someone else. Hashim Noorzai, the head of Khash Rud district in southwestern Nimruz province, said the two were executed by gun shots in front of a crowd of villagers. He said he had no details on how the Taliban had come to be involved in passing judgement on them.