7 shot dead in pre-election Taliban attack

The attack on Tuesday in the central province of Uruzgan is the latest in a wave of violence ahead of the parliamentary and provincial council polls which has left more than 1,000 people dead this year.

Governor Jan Mohammad Khan told AFP that the rebels stopped a vehicle with seven people inside in Gizab district.

"They searched everybody and found an official document, a car registration for election day, on one of them. Then the Taliban killed the seven people," Khan said.

Separately on Tuesday Taliban guerillas hanged an intelligence official in the southeastern province of Zabul, a known hotbed for the ousted hardline militia, police said.