Teenager executes child killer who ‘shot his family’ in front of 80,000 at stadium

Three shots rang out and thousands packed into a cricket stadium cheered after a 13-year-old executed the man found guilty of killing his family.

The public execution, echoing the worst days of Taliban rule, was of a man who the Supreme Court ruled had killed 13 members of the same family including nine children and their mother.

The man had been convicted along with another of entering a family home in Khost province and shooting them all dead.

The victims’ relatives had been offered the option of forgiveness and reconciliation that would have spared the man’s life, but instead requested the death penalty, the court said.

The teenager shot the condemned man three times as some of the 80,000-strong crowds shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’.

Mujib Rahman Rahmani, a Khost resident at the stadium, s