Kabul, Feb 8 (IANS): An election campaign worker was kidnapped and killed by unidentified armed men in Afghanistan's Saripul province Friday, police said Saturday, blaming the Taliban for the murder.
"The body of Hajji Yasin, who had campaigned for presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, was found from a road Friday night," Xinhua quoted police chief Noor Habib Gulbahari as saying.
Gulbahari blamed the Taliban for the murder.
Meanwhile, Fazil Sangcharaki, a spokesman for presidential hopeful Abdullah, expressed ignorance about the incident, saying he would check the report.
In a similar incident, unidentified attackers opened fire and injured an election campaigner of another presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai in Karakh district of Herat province Friday evening.