AP reports:
— “In an example of the extreme threats that voters faced, an Afghan man said Monday that Taliban militants cut off his nose and both ears as he tried to vote.”
— “‘I was on my way to a polling station when Taliban stopped me and searched me. They found my voter registration card,’ Lal Mohammad said from a hospital bed in Kabul. He said they cut off his nose and ears before beating him unconscious with a weapon.”
— “‘I regret that I went to vote,’ Mohammad said, crying and trying to hide his disfigured face. ‘What is the benefit of voting to me?'”