A Canadian held hostage by the Taliban has spoken of the group’s “stupidity and evil”, revealing they murdered his daughter and raped his wife.
Joshua Boyle spoke to reporters after landing in Canada with his wife Caitlan Coleman and children following almost five years in captivity.
They were captured while reportedly backpacking in Afghanistan in 2012.
Ms Coleman’s father has said the decision to visit the dangerous country was “unconscionable”.
Both sets of parents have previously questioned why the couple were in Afghanistan in the first place.
“What I can say is taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place is to me and the kind of person I am, is unconscionable,” Jim Coleman told ABC News following their rescue on Wednesday.
“I can’t imagine doing that myself. But, I think that’s all I want to say about that.”
However, Mr Boyle told reporters at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport the couple had been trying to deliver aid to villagers in a part of the Taliban-controlled region “where no NGO, no aid worker, and no government” had been able to reach when they were kidnapped.
