A rights group source said the women received a call that they thought was an invitation to join an evacuation flight and were picked up by a car, only to be found dead later.
KABUL - Four women have been found dead in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a spokesperson for Afghanistan's Taliban government said on Saturday, following reports that activists had been killed.
Khosti did not identify the victims, but a source in Mazar-i-Sharif told AFP that at least one of the dead was a women's rights activist, whose family does not wish to speak to the media. The Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan in August after a 20-year war against the former US-backed government, are a deeply conservative Islamist movement.
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