Taliban publicly display bodies of alleged kidnappers in Herat

Four corpses taken to main square and hung from cranes by Afghanistan's Islamist regime

Taliban authorities in the western Afghan city of Herat killed four alleged kidnappers and hung their bodies up in public to deter others, a local government official has said, in a sign of Afghanistan's new rulers' return to their harsh version of Islamic justice.

Graphic footage shows the dead bodies of at least four men with their clothes covered in blood hanging from cranes in the city's main squares as people watch.