KABUL, May 9: Two foreigners, one of them a Swiss citizen, were found dead in a garden in Kabul on Sunday after being beaten with bricks by unknown attackers , a government spokesman and police said.

Interior ministry spokesman Litfula Mashal said the two foreign men were killed in Chelsitun garden in the west of Kabul. He said one was a Swiss man about 30 years old but the nationality of the other victim was not yet known.

"We do not know who killed them. Their bodies were found at the scene on Sunday morning. They have been taken to the Kabul morgue," Mashal said. "We don't know by now what were they were doing in the garden and who killed them. The investigation is going on."

A police source said the two victims were wearing Afghan clothes. "They were beaten by bricks and killed," he said, adding they could have been the victims of a kidnapping. A witness who saw the bodies in the Kabul Hospital morgue said: "One of them was strangled and the second one was stoned to death. It was a bloody scene."

Journalists were kept away from the morgue where the bodies were shifted under the control of the International Security Assistance Force, which is working with Afghan police to maintain security in Kabul. The bodies were found in a vacant old garden surrounded by high walls in western Kabul near a hill. -AFP