What led to bloodbath at Afghan fortress? Corpses found with bound hands - 9/11

Sat, 19 Jun 2021 16:19:44 GMT

MAZAR-E SHARIF, Afghanistan (AP) — Corpses with bound hands, dust mixed with dried blood, spent mortar rounds littering fields where horses grazed: No part of this massive fortress was left unstained by death in one of the most ferocious battles of the war on the Taliban. In a field strewn with about 50 bodies, an Associated Press photographer Wednesday saw that some corpses had their arms tied with cloth — contrary to claims by a key northern alliance commander that none had been tied up. Full details may never be known of the uprising by Taliban who were being held prisoner at Qalai Janghi fortress near the city of Mazar-e Sharif or of the fierce assault that ended the rebellion. Red Cross workers on Wednesday began hauling bodies away, and with the remains likely went much of the evidence of what happened.