KABUL -- Taliban militants beheaded four local employees of a private construction company in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, said the Interior Ministry in a press release.
"The militants abducted these people last week from Kamdish district of eastern Nuristan province and brutally beheaded them after the Taliban demand for ransom was not met by the families of the ill-fated men," said the press release.
All the victims had worked for a local road construction company called Mohammadi.
Taliban insurgents have yet to make comment. However, the militants in the past have repeatedly targeted road construction firms and in some cases murdered their employees.