GHAZNI, Afghanistan - Angry villagers have stoned a man to death and riddled
his body with bullets, believing he set off a bomb on a bus that killed 18
civilians, officials said on Monday.
The roadside blast ripped through a minibus carrying wedding guests in the
central province of Ghazni on Sunday, killing 18 people, the majority of them
women.
Villagers hunted down a local man who was found hiding in a chicken coop
next to his home, with the bomb’s remote control apparently found nearby,
Ghazni deputy provincial governor Mohammad Ali Ahmadi told AFP.
A crowd of more than 100 people dragged the man out, beat him with sticks
and shovels and then stoned him with rocks until he was dead.
“They shot about 200 bullets at his body,” Ahmadi said.
Asadullah Insafi, the Ghazni province deputy police chief, gave a similar
account of the incident.
source: AFP
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