DHAKA: Afghan villagers discovered on Sunday the beheaded bodies of six government contractors in the country’s insurgency-racked south, the apparent victims of Taliban insurgents who regularly target state projects, officials said.

Meanwhile, the death toll from a suicide vehicle bomb attack on the site of a key national council in the capital Kabul has risen to 12, officials said, while Nato said an international service member was killed by a roadside bomb.

The Taliban took credit for the Saturday blast outside the huge tent where the Loya Jirga is to be held later this week, during which thousands of prominent Afghans are scheduled to meet to debate a contentious security agreement with the United States, reports The Straits Times.

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