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Taliban soldiers kill two former members of security forces and a student in Badakhshan

Local sources in Arghanj Khwah district of the northeastern Badakhshan province say that Taliban gunmen have killed two former members of security forces in the previous government and a madrasa student. 

According to a source who didn’t want to be named, Samiullah was a former police officer and Haji Abdi was a former commander in the public mobilisation force.  

The two men and the madrasa student were murdered in separate incidents, the source added.

Taliban officials in the area have not commented.