Kandahar, Afghanistan - Taliban guerrillas have kidnapped and killed an Afghan woman after accusing her of spying for US forces, an official and the Islamic militia said on Wednesday.
The woman, whose name was not revealed, was dragged from her house in Mizan, a district in the troubled south-eastern province of Zabul on Tuesday night, said district chief Mohammad Younus.
"She was later shot dead by the Taliban," Younus said.
Taliban spokesperson Abdul Latif Hakimi said the fundamentalist rebels had killed the woman "because she was spying for the American invaders".
Speaking in a telephone call from an undisclosed location, he added that two male relatives of the victim were also seized by the Taliban but were alive.
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The Taliban, who were ousted from power in late 2001 by a US-led invasion, have increased attacks on the 19 000-strong US-led military in Afghanistan, Afghan troops and civilians over the recent months.
Zabul, a hotbed for militia activities, has been the scene of several clashes between US and militant forces this year, with 17 people including a US soldier dying in a firefight there Monday.
Nearly 900 people, many of them militants, have died in Afghanistan in political violence since the beginning of 2005.
About 64 US soldiers have been killed in clashes or accidents so far this year, higher than the 58 who were killed in 2004. - Sapa-AFP
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