Afghanistan executes two over bank attack

The Afghan government has executed two Taliban insurgents for a co-ordinated gun and suicide attack on a bank which left 38 people dead, it said Monday. Zar Ajam, whom the Afghans identified as Pakistani, and an Afghan named Mutihullah were sentenced to death for their part in the attack on a branch of Kabul Bank in Jalalabad in February.
President Hamid Karzai personally gave the go-ahead for their sentences to be carried out, a statement from the Afghan intelligence service said. "They were executed at 11:00 am (0630 GMT) today and a third accomplice in the case was sentenced to 20 years in prison.