Taliban rebels killed 32 in Afghanistan: Lawmaker

Legislator Dad Mohammad Khan said that apart from the 32 killed, at least 10 others were missing.

Taliban rebels killed 32 people in an attack in southern Afghanistan, a member of parliament told the agency on Monday.

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Legislator Dad Mohammad Khan said that at least 10 others were missing and that the casualties from the attack in southern Helmand province on Sunday were all friends and relatives.

"Yesterday morning in a Taliban attack, 32 of my relatives and friends were killed," he said and added that the victims were killed while retrieving the bodies of five other men slain in an earlier attack.