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Taliban cut off fingers of 2 Afghan voters

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-08-22 15:27

An Afghan election worker unloads ballot boxes from a truck at a counting center in Kandahar province, August 21, 2009. [Agencies]

KABUL: An Afghan vote monitoring group says Taliban militants in Afghanistan's south cut off the fingers of two Afghan voters, carrying out a gruesome pre-election threat.

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Nader Nadery of the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan says Saturday two voters in southern Kandahar province -- the Taliban's spiritual birthplace -- lost their fingers.

Nadery says the two fingers sliced off had been dipped in purple indelible ink, an anti-fraud measure.

Rumors that militants would cut fingers off spread before Thursday's presidential vote. However, a Taliban spokesman said militants would not carry out such attacks.

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