KABUL, July 8: The US military searched for an eleventh day on Friday for an American commando missing in eastern Afghanistan, while the Taliban said their guerillas were interrogating the man and would kill him within days.

The US military has said it has no information to suggest the Navy SEAL commando, part of a four-man team that went missing during a clash with militants in mountainous Kunar province on June 28, has been captured.

And Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi gave no evidence to back his claim that the guerillas were holding him.

Speaking from an undisclosed location on Friday, Hakimi told Reuters he was unable to provide the name or a description of the commando due to difficulties contacting guerillas holding him.

However, he insisted: “The soldier is with us.

“He is alive, but we will kill him in the coming couple of days. We are interrogating him and that is why we have kept him alive. The interrogation is about American military tactics and their operations.”—Reuters