An unidentified mother, center, and other family members of Sim Sung-min, one of the South Korean hostages in Afghanistan, cry after watching television news about him in Sungnam, south of Seoul, South Korea. Police in central Afghanistan at daybreak discovered the body of a second South Korean hostage slain by the Taliban.

First published in the July 31, 2007, 9:25 p.m. edition

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