Afghan police chief, the Germans shot shortage

KABUL, Afghanistan (World News) - Two German, missing nearly three weeks on a hike in the Hindu Kush were being shot, said a police spokesman, generally Monday gene. Sher Ahmad Dani Mala, police chief of Afghanistan's eastern province of Parwan, said on Monday that a rescue team reached the body in the afternoon.

He said the two men had gunshot wounds in the chest, but it is unclear when they died. He said he had asked the Interior Ministry and the German Army helicopters, to help the body down the mountain. It took the rescue team of four hours to reach the body at the foot of Main Street. Police at the scene said they could not return the bodies Monday because of darkness and will try again in the morning.

The area where the bodies were found extremely rugged and remote. Police General Rajab, like many Afghans goes by one name, said the two bodies were in cloth bags. Parwan Governor Abdul Basir Salang said they were discovered under a large rock in about 2 1 / 2 miles (four kilometers) from the southern end of the Salang Pass, where they began their hike on 19 August.

He had no other details, and it remained unclear who discovered the bodies. The living area is mainly inhabited by nomads in tents. A spokesman for the German Foreign Office in Berlin, speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed in accordance with the rules of the ministry, that two bodies were found in Parwan province, but said he could no details until they have been unequivocally identified are. In separate incidents, a bomb killed a suicide bomber and eight people and wounded 20 in two attacks in the country, said the interior minister.

Five civilians were killed Monday when a bomb exploded near their vehicle in the western province of Faryab Afghanistan. In addition, the ministry said, in t he southern city of Kandahar Sunday, a suicide bomber later killed three Afghan private security guards and wounding 20 more. The guards were part of a convoy and had finished for the evening prayer when the attack occurred.

The Ministry no further details about the two incidents. The area where the Germans are gone is not a Taliban area. Last month, the Afghan police have speculated that the two men lost in the mountains or have been victims of crime. The organization they work for has not been appointed.

The day when they are gone, both to the southern end of the Salang pass, drove north from Kabul, almost eight hours and said that their drivers, they went into the mountains. They promised to return to 16 hours and the driver waited 18 hours before contacting the local authorities and the search begins.

Salang Pass is an important route through the Hindu Kush, the Afghan capital, Kabul, left, with the northern part of the nation. Germany was an importan t factor for the NATO International Security Assistance in Afghanistan and currently has about 5,200 soldiers stationed in the country, especially in the north.