Afghanistan: Car thieves blamed for multiple killings

Investigators in Afghanistan have arrested several members of a criminal gang suspected of luring dozens of drivers to houses before killing them, stealing their vehicles and hiding their bodies in at least three locations, officials said today.

Intelligence agents searching a house in the eastern city of Jalalabad dug up the bodies of 16 men buried in the yard, said Faizan ul-Haq, a spokesman for the government of surrounding Nangarhar.