Taliban gunmen shooting couple dead for adultery caught on camera phone

Taliban gunmen have been filmed executing a surprised couple whom they repeatedly shot for the alleged crime of adultery, reports The Telegraph.

Their deaths were squalid, riddled with bullets in a field near their home by Taliban gunmen as the execution was captured on a mobile telephone.

In footage which is being watched with horror by Pakistanis, the couple try to flee when they realise what is about to happen. But a gunman casually shoots the man and then the woman in the back with a burst of gunfire, leaving them bleeding in the dirt.

... Their "crime" was an alleged affair in their remote mountain village controlled by militants in an area that was only recently under the government's sway. It was the kind of barbarity that has become increasingly familiar across Pakistan as the Taliban tide has spread.

[via The Huffington Post]

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