Taliban militants execute women accused of prostitution

Taliban militants say they have executed two women in central Afghanistan after accusing them of working as prostitutes on a US base.

Sayed Ismal, a spokesman for Ghazni’s governor, says the women, dressed in blue burqas, were shot and killed last night just outside Ghazni city in central Afghanistan.

He has called the two “innocent local people.”

Taliban fighters have told Associated Press Television News the two were executed for allegedly running a prostitution ring catering to US soldiers and other foreign contractors at a US base in Ghazni city.

1st Lt Nathan Perry, a US military spokesman, says he has never heard of allegations “anything close to that nature.”