His nephew Schuresch Saleh announced this to the German press agency on Saturday. According to this, Taliban fighters took the brother named Rohullah Asisi out of the car at a checkpoint in the Punjir province, which was captured by the Islamists this week, and shot him. The Taliban initially gave no statement.
Saleh declared himself the lawful incumbent head of state last month after President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad. After the fall of the capital Kabul and the Taliban seizure of power in mid-August, he built up resistance in the Pandjir Valley. His current whereabouts are not known.
In the past few days there have been videos from the Pandjir Valley showing that hundreds of families tried to leave the valley with their belongings. It was initially unclear why. The telephone connections are not working. The humanitarian situation had worsened, among other things, because the Taliban have not allowed any more food deliveries since the beginning of their military offensive. There was also a video circulating on Saturday that is supposed to show how the Taliban opened fire on an arrested person.