Taleban militants shot dead seven Afghan civilians after finding a registration document for the weekend's milestone elections in their car, a provincial governor said Wednesday.
The attack on Tuesday in the central province of Uruzgan is the latest in a wave of violence before Sunday's parliamentary and provincial council polls which has left more than 1,000 people dead this year.
Governor Jan Mohammad Khan told AFP the rebels stopped a vehicle carrying seven people in Gizab district. "They searched everybody and found an official document, a car registration for election day, on one of them. Then the Taleban killed the seven people," Khan said.
On Wednesday three civilians were killed in a remote-controlled landmine blast in the Tirin Kot district of the same province, the governor said.
In the south-eastern province of Zabul, a hotbed for the ousted hard-line militia, police said Taleban guerrillas on Tuesday hanged an intelligence official.
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