Ousted Taliban remnants have killed a senior Afghan provincial official several days after kidnapping him, a Taliban spokesman said on Saturday. Sarajuddin, chief of Zabul’s power and water department, was killed after a group of Taliban seized him two days ago outside the town of Qalat, Zabul’s provincial capital, the spokesman said. The murder was confirmed by a local police official. His killing is the third such murder of a local official in less than a week in the restive south, the former bastion of the Taliban. Full Story