Italian hostage killed in Afghanistan
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-05-20 22:29

Humanitarian worker Clementina Cantoni from the CARE International aid agency, who was abducted in Kabul on Monday, is seen in this undated handout photograph. Cantoni has been killed, the alleged kidnapper told Reuters on May 20, 2005, but a government spokesperson said she was still alive. Timoor Shah said that he had killed Clementina Cantoni after President Hamid Karzai's government refused to accept his demands. [Reuters]

KABUL - The Italian aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan has been killed, the alleged kidnapper told Reuters on Friday, but a government spokesman said she was still alive.

Timoor Shah said that he had killed Clementina Cantoni after President Hamid Karzai's government refused to accept his demands.

"We strangled her with a rope at nine o'clock last night," Shah said.

Karzai's spokesman, Jawed Ludin, insisted that 32-year-old Cantoni was still alive. Cantoni, who works for Care International, was seized by gunmen in Kabul on Monday night.

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