Taliban hangs mother and son they claim were spies

SUSPECTED Taliban militants hanged an old woman and her son from a tree in southern Afghanistan, after accusing them of spying for the Government.

The 70-year-old woman and her 30-year-old son, were killed yesterday in the village of Daigh, eight kilometres north of Musa Qala town of the southern Helmand province, said Amir Mohammad Akhunzada, the province’s deputy governor.

Mr Akhunzada did not identify the two, but said that the woman’s son-in-law worked for the police in the district.