Local sources told Afghanistan International that the Taliban have killed a number of residents in Daikundi province. According to the sources, Taliban fighters shot three civilians during a house-to-house raid in Kian area of the province.
The Taliban fighters have also injured several residents of the area in the search operation.
So far, the Taliban have not provided any reasons for the group’s fighters’ raid on the Kian resident’s houses. The group had previously conducted search operations in civilian areas to find weapons and or follow suspected resistance fighters.
Daikundi has always been one of the relatively peaceful provinces of Afghanistan, but the Taliban previously announced that the group's opponents are also present in Daikundi. On the same pretext, last year, Taliban fighters killed nine civilians, including four children, in an attack on a house in Siwak area of Daikundi province.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman of the Taliban at that time, called these people "rebels".
Earlier, Mohammad Mohaqiq and Karim Khalili, two political leaders of Hazaras of Afghanistan, have urged human rights groups not to ignore the Taliban’s brutality and crimes in Daikundi province.
