Hostage deaths in Afghanistan unconfirmed
BERLIN |
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it had received no independent confirmation that any of the German hostages in Afghanistan had been killed by the Taliban.
"We are taking these statements very seriously," German Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Jaeger said in a statement. "So far we have no independent confirmation that a hostage was murdered in Afghanistan."
He said Berlin was in constant contact with the Afghan government.
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