“They had planned to go to another village to participate in a funeral ceremony. We are sure they were killed by wolves,” Sher Gull’s grieving father Haje Baz Khan told AFP from his mud-brick house. Two other people from Sadar Khel village in the mountainous Mosa Khel district of neighboring Khost province were also killed by wolves, locals said.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams, (1722-1803)
Sunday, March 20, 2005
‘Wolves Eat Humans in Afghanistan After Bitter Winter’
KHOST, Afghanistan, 20 March 2005 — At least four Afghans have been devoured by wolves driven down from the hills in search of food during the worst winter in a decade, family members said yesterday. Villagers in Naka, a remote settlement in southeastern Paktia province, found little more than remains and bloodied, shredded clothes when they went looking for 27-year-old Sher Gull and Gull Nawaz, 32.
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