Afghan Government Says Japanese Teachers Not Killed in Afghanistan
Posted on: Tuesday, 6 September 2005, 06:00 CDT
Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo
Kabul, 6 September: Two Japanese tourists found shot dead in southern Afghanistan last week were not killed in Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Tuesday [6 September].
"I can confidently say that they were not killed in Afghanistan," spokesman Mohammad Rahim Karimi told a news conference in the capital.
"The entry records at the border show that they have not entered Afghanistan alive," the spokesman said. "We even did not find any Afghani currency in their pockets."
Jun Fukusho, 44, and Shinobu Hasegawa, 33, from a junior high school in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, went missing 8 August after they checked out of a hotel in Quetta, western Pakistan, intending to visit the Bamiyan ruins in central Afghanistan.
Their bodies were found Friday in the Daman district of Kandahar, close to the Pakistani border, with gunshot wounds to the head.
Kandahar Gov. Assadullah Khalid told reporters that the two were killed outside the Afghan border and their bodies were taken to Afghanistan.
After a memorial service for pair at the Japanese Embassy in Kabul on Monday, the bodies were flown out of Afghanistan to Dubai on Tuesday to be handed over to their families.
Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
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