They both loved her — so she had to die.

Savage Afghan villagers laughed, cheered and yelled, “God is great,” as a a burqa-wearing young woman caught in a love triangle between Taliban rivals was ruthlessly shot dead in an execution captured on video.

The horrifying amateur video shows a man wearing an orange beret coldly firing an AK-47 into the woman’s head and body — and continuing to blast away at close range even as she lay dead on the ground.

As the 22-year-old woman, identified only as Najiba, is gunned down, about 150 men perched on a nearby hillside in the Qimchok village in Parwan province shout their approval at the “mujahedeen,” yelling, “God is great.”

NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan, US Gen. John Allen, called the killing “an atrocity of unspeakable cruelty.”

Afghan authorities said the killing came after the two Taliban sickos had argued over the woman.

Parwan provincial governor Abdul Basir Salangi told CNN that because both Taliban men “had some kind of relationship with the woman,” they decided to accuse her of adultery to “save face.”

A shocked villager gave the sickening video — believed to have been shot in June — to the government, and it was obtained by Reuters.

The Afghan government condemned the killing as un-Islamic and inhuman.

“This was a brutal act against the Afghan people by the Taliban,” Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Seddiqi said.

“They will be punished as they were punished 10 years ago, and we will continue our struggle to eliminate them,” he told Reuters.

Public executions of accused adulterers were common when the Taliban regime was in power. They were overthrown by the US-led coalition after the 9/11 attacks for allowing Osama bin Laden to operate freely.

The Taliban denied involvement in the killing, but authorities in Kabul directly blamed the Islamist fundamentalists.

And while many cheered, some villagers vowed to get even.

“We will take revenge for this. Their brutality and such inhumane acts are why we hate the Taliban,” said a 42-year-old shopkeeper in Charikar, provincial capital of Parwan.

Despite a decade of war and the presence of more than 130,000 foreign troops and 300,000 Afghan soldiers and police, the Taliban have spread from their traditional bastions in the south and east, extending their reach into once more peaceful areas like Parwan.

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