Taliban militants are hunting for people in the Afghan capital city of Kabul who collaborated with UK, US and Nato forces, according to a confidential United Nations document.
It is understood fighters have been searching homes and threatening family members unless targets surrender to the armed group, The Telegraph reports.
Senior Afghan officials also told the newspaper that they had been forced to go into “deep hiding” to avoid Taliban teams who are looking for members of the democratically-elected government of Afghanistan.
It comes as it was confirmed 12 people have been killed in and around Kabul airport since the Taliban seized the city on Sunday, triggering a rush of fearful people trying to leave.
The deaths were caused either by gun shots or in stampedes, a Taliban official said on Thursday, and he urged people still crowded at the gates of the facility to go home if they did not have the legal right to travel.
"We don't want to hurt anyone at the airport," said the Taliban official, who declined to be identified.
