The police found the body of an executed Turkish engineer in Gereshk district in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan on Thursday, a local official said.

"We found the beheaded body of the Turkish engineer named Mustafa Asimi today," Amanullah, the police chief of Gereshk, told Xinhua.

Asimi, who was working for a Turkish construction company, was abducted by Taliban militants in Dilaram district of the neighboring Nimroz province in late August.

The militants killed the engineer on Tuesday after the company, which the Taliban claimed works in the U.S. interests, refused to withdraw from this country as they had demanded.

Taliban insurgents have kidnapped and killed several Turkish and Indian engineers working for construction companies in this volatile country this year.

Source: Xinhua