Ayoubi rejects the security officials’ comments that eight of the passengers are held hostage by armed Taliban saying “the group is held some 18 passengers.”
The elders of the people of Badakhshan and Kunduz provinces have released 10 of the kidnaped passengers by mediation on Saturday, Ayoubi told our correspondent in Kunduz.
However, no security official willed to detail further regarding the report despite frequent contacts.