Afghan charged with journalist murders

AN AFGHAN man has been charged with the murder of four foreign journalists during the closing days of the Taliban regime.

The journalists were travelling in a convoy from the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad to Kabul when a group of armed men dragged them from their cars and shot them dead in November 2001.

Reza Khan is facing charges including murder, rape and highway robbery, said General Abdul Fatah, a prosecutor attached to the Afghan intelligence service.