The Taliban hang the deceased bodies of alleged kidnappers in the Afghan city of Herat in a grim sign that the group is reinstating its hardline rule despite trying to project a more moderate image.
Mulwi Shir Ahmad Ammar, the city's deputy governor, told NBC News that the four men had kidnapped a local trader and his son on Saturday morning and had intended to take them out of the city, which sits around 500 miles west of the country's capital Kabul.
Authorities had set up roadblocks and checkpoints across the city to catch them, he said. NBC News was not able to independently verify his claims.Footage of a corpse swinging on the crane in broad daylight in the city's Mostofiat Square was widely shared on social media and by news agencies. Crowds of mostly men could be seen looking up at the body.
One senior Taliban commander told NBC News that public execution was"the only solution" to deal with crimes, particularly kidnapping and murder. He was speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not officially authorized to speak.
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