Nineteen kidnapped Afghans released, 12 more could be freed soon - officials


  • World
  • Monday, 11 May 2015

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Nineteen Afghan men from among 31 kidnapped by gunmen from a bus in February were freed on Monday by their captors, and the rest could be released soon, officials said.

The men are Hazaras, members of a largely Shi'ite Muslim ethnic minority persecuted under the Taliban movement's Sunni Islamist rule, although sectarian violence has been rare since the Taliban was ousted by a U.S.-led invasion in 2001.

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