DHAKA: Afghan police hunted down and killed two Taliban insurgents who cut off the fingers of 11 elderly men who voted in the presidential election run-off.

Officials said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.

All voters in Afghanistan had their fingers marked with ink after voting to prevent them from casting more than one ballot, but the ink also identified those who participated in the election in defiance of Taliban threats.

‘Insurgent commander Mullah Shir Agha and one of his officers were killed in a police operation yesterday in Herat,’ a statement from the interior ministry said.

‘The pair were accused of having cut off the ink-dyed finger of 11 voters.’

BDST: 1352 HRS, JUNE 17, 2014