Shim Sung-min(29) and Bae Hyeing-gyu(42) hostages are killed by taleban.
The taleban has insisted that it will kill more of the 21 South Korean Christians help hostage in afghanistan after the latest ultimatum set by the insurgents expired.
There was no word on the fate of hostages last night.
A taleban spokesman said earlier that the group was expecting to hear from Afghan mediators over its demand for the government to release revel prisoners, but insisted some of the hostages would be killed if that demand was not met.
The afghan government has said that giving in to revel demands would onlyu encourage more kidnapping.
The hostages desperate relatives, keeping an agonising vigil in seoul, appealed to the united states to intervene.South Korean MPs also appealed to the US to act.
Most of the hostages were ill, but two females “are seriously ill and there is this possibility that they may die”, Taleban spkesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf said from an undisclosed location. He said the pair suffered from an unknown illness and the Taleban did not have the right medicines to treat them.
The taleban were looking after the remaining south koreans kidnaped from a bus in Ghazni province two weeks ago, he added.
The islamic movement killed two male hostages after precious deadlines expired.
Afghan officials hace said no deal would ve struck, and hace demanded the unconditional release of the remaining captives, 18 of whom are women. The group of 23 had been sent by a church in Seoul to do relief work in Afghanistan.
South Korea is under intense pressure to bting the hostages home, but concedes tht it has few cards to play. It has called for "flexibility, a comment that analysts say is directed at the US to pressure the afghan Government to strike a deal with the kidnappers.
A US State Department spokesman has said Washington "does not make concessions to terrorists.
The abduction of the koreans comes agter 18 months of rising voilence in Afghanistan, the blodiest period since the Talevan were ousted from power by US-led and Afghan forces in 2001. A day before seizing the Koreans, the Taleban have killed four afghan judges kidnapped in Ghazni two weeeks ago, a provincial official said. The bodies of the four, killed on Tuesday night, were found to the south of the town of Ghazni yesterday.
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