Afghan women's affairs official shot dead
The head of the women's affairs department for Afghanistan's
eastern Lagham Province has been shot dead, Radio Liberty
reported.
Local authorities say gunmen killed Nadia Sidiqi as she traveled to
work on December 10 in the provincial capital, Mihtarlam.
Lagham Province police chief Ahmad Sherzad told AFP that he's
confident the attackers will be caught.
Sidiqi took over the job after her predecessor, Hanifa Safi, was
killed in July by a magnetic bomb attached to her car.
There is no immediate claim of responsibility for the killing, but
assassinations are increasingly used by Taliban insurgents in their
fight against Afghanistan's Western-backed government.
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