KABUL – A woman accused of murdering her mother-in-law has been killed by Taliban in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni, local officials say.
The mother-in-law was pushed into a bread oven by two of her daughters-in-law after a spat on Monday, they said.
The incident took place in the remote Abe Band district, 60 kilometres (37 miles) east of the provincial capital Ghazni City.
Officials said the Taliban had so far spared the life of the second daughter-in-law, as she was pregnant.
The names of the three women were not released.
“There was a verbal clash between the daughters-in-law and the mother-in-law. The daughters-in-law threw her into the oven. She died of serious burns,” one Afghan official told the BBC. He said that the family approached the Taliban after the incident.
A local intelligence official said it was suspected the Taliban gave an AK-47 assault rifle to the brother of the dead woman and asked him to shoot one of the daughters-in-law in public. But he added that it was possible that the family killed the daughter-in-law on its own. (BBC)
