Taliban stones woman in W. Afghanistan: media

Taliban militants have stoned to dead a woman on charge of eloping and adultery in the western Ghor province, a local television channel aired Tuesday.

Footage of the stoning which broadcast by Tolo here indicates that scores of turbaned and bearded men brutally throwing stones at the powerless woman in an isolated area till her death.

However, the television didn't reveal the exact date of the gruesome incident.

Taliban militants who had stoned to death women for adultery and amputated the hands and feet of people on charge of robbery during their reign in Afghanistan toppled in late 2001, have yet to make comment. Enditem