The South Korea Foreign Ministry confirmed Tuesday a second South Korean hostage has been killed in Afghanistan.
"One of our citizens kidnapped in Afghanistan, Shim Sung-min, was confirmed July 31 to have been killed," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Hee-yong at a press briefing.
A Taliban spokesman said earlier that the militants had shot dead a male hostage on July 30.
Afghan militants abducted 23 South Koreans in Afghanistan on July 19. The kidnappers killed a man, identified as Bae Hyung-kyu, on July 25.
Source: Xinhua
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