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Date: January 5, 2022
Location: Dara-e-Tangi area, Sayed Abad District, Maidan Wardak Province
Victims: Two unidentified men
Circumstances: Bodies found near a river, victims reportedly abducted a week prior

On January 5, 2022, the bodies of two men were discovered in the Dara-e-Tangi area of Sayed Abad District, Maidan Wardak Province. According to Khairullah, a local resident of Sayed Abad District, the deceased individuals had been abducted by unknown armed men a week earlier from the "Qala-e-Amir" market in the same area. This incident is part of a broader pattern of violence and disappearances that has been reported since the change in government in Afghanistan.

Since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, there have been reports of hundreds of former Afghan security forces members, former government employees, tribal elders and influential figures, political personalities, and civil activists being killed or disappearing under suspicious circumstances. In many cases, these killings have been attributed to members of the Taliban.