A mob of Afghan pilgrims has beaten to death a minister in the country's interim cabinet at Kabul airport. Afghan government sources confirmed on Friday that Civil Aviation Minister Abdul Rahman had died of his injuries. A crowd of about 1,000 pilgrims, who were waiting to set off for the traditional Muslim Hajj, assaulted the minister on Thursday after rumours that he had cancelled a flight to Saudi Arabia. Nobody was arrested after the incident and all the pilgrims finally left. Our correspondent says the pilgrims had waited for two days in freezing temperatures to board flights to the holy city of Mecca.