Mass grave found in Afghanistan

Hundreds of men - probably Taliban prisoners killed by their Northern Alliance captors - are buried in a mass grave in northern Afghanistan, a US human rights group has said.

Hundreds of men - probably Taliban prisoners killed by their Northern Alliance captors - are buried in a mass grave in northern Afghanistan, a US human rights group has said.

US-based Physicians for Human Rights said its investigations near the city of Mazar-e-Sharif indicate that the men in the mass grave may have died after they surrendered to Northern Alliance soldiers.

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