Taliban confirm reports of four women killed in northern Afghanistan

Following reports that activists had been killed, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban government said on Saturday that four women had been found dead in northern Afghanistan.

Four women have been found dead in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban government said on Saturday, following reports that activists had been killed.

Two suspects have been arrested after the four bodies were found at a house in the city's fifth police district, interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosti said in a video statement.