Suspected Taliban Kill Pro - Afghan Government Cleric

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By REUTERS
Published: August 21, 2005
Filed at 2:41 a.m. ET

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Suspected Afghan Taliban guerrillas killed a senior pro-government cleric as he was walking to a mosque in the southern province of Kandahar on Sunday, a local official said.

Skip to next paragraph Mawlavi Abdullah Malang and a colleague were gunned down just after dawn by three suspected Taliban fighters riding on motorbikes, the official said.

No Taliban official could be immediately reached for comment, but members of the radical Islamic group have killed several members of a government appointed religious council this year in the south and east, where the militants are mostly active.

In June, Taliban fighters shot dead the head of Kandahar's religious council, Mawlavi Abdullah Fayaz, and a suicide attack attributed to the Taliban killed more than 20 during his funeral at a mosque a day later.

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