KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Fifteen men and two women were found beheaded in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Monday, punishment meted out by Taliban insurgents for a mixed-sex party with music and dancing, officials said.
The bodies were found in a house near the Musa Qala district, about 75 km (46 miles) north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, said district governor Nimatullah, who only goes by one name.
"The victims threw a late-night dance and music party when the Taliban attacked" on Sunday night, Nimatullah told Reuters.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility.
In ultra-conservative Afghanistan, men and women do not usually mingle unless they are related, and parties involving both genders together are rare and highly secretive affairs.
For the Taliban, flirting, open displays of affection and the mixing of men and women are vehemently condemned.
According to witnesses of a major attack that killed 20 near Kabul in June, Taliban gunmen stormed a high-end hotel demanding to know where the "prostitutes and pimps" were.
The Taliban said it launched that attack on Qarga Lake because the hotel was used for "wild parties".
During their five-year reign, which was toppled by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in 2001, sparking the present NATO-led war, the Taliban banned women from voting, most work and leaving their homes unaccompanied by their husband or a male relative.
Though those rights have been painstakingly regained, Afghanistan remains one of the worst places on earth to be a woman.
Helmand governor spokesman Daud Ahmadi said a team had been sent to the site of beheadings to investigate.
(Additional reporting by Hamid Shalizi, Writing by Amie Ferris-Rotman; Editing by Nick Macfie)
Gavin Henson could miss the start of the new English Premiership season after the former Wales three-quarter suffered a suspected fractured cheekbone in London Welsh's 23-17 friendly loss against Llanelli Scarlets.
Henson suffered the injury in a tackle by Deacon Manu in the opening minute and before being replaced shortly before half-time.
He now faces a fight to be fit to race Leicester on September 2.
"We're hoping for the best, but if it's the worst he's not the first player to get injured and we'll just have to be patient and deal with it," head coach Lyn Jones told London Welsh's website on Sunday.
Henson was taken to hospital and given X-rays and tests after he was tackled by Deacon Manu in the first minute of the match.
Jones added: "These are things you've got to deal with in rugby. You've got to deal with thunderbolts all the time.
"No player wants to get injured in a pre-season friendly because it's hugely frustrating because of all the hard work that's been done leading up to the start of the season."
The 30-year-old Henson was sacked by Cardiff Blues, his fourth club in little more than a year, in April over his drunken behaviour on a flight returning from a game in Glasgow.
Henson played an integral part in Wales' 2005 and 2008 Grand Slam campaigns but injuries and off-field problems have interrupted a career that also includes a tour of New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions seven years ago.
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