Gunmen kill former Afghan female lawmaker in Kabul - China Daily

A pistillate looks astatine a representation of erstwhile Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada connected her mobile phone, who was changeable dormant by gunmen past nighttime astatine her location successful Kabul connected Jan 15, 2023. [Photo/Agencies]

KABUL -- Unknown equipped men gunned down erstwhile Afghan pistillate parliamentarian Mursal Nabizada on with 1 of her bodyguards successful her residence, Kabul constabulary spokesperson Khalid Zadran confirmed connected Sunday.

"The gruesome incidental happened successful Ahmad Shah Baba Mina, a vicinity of Police District 12 of Kabul city, wherever unidentified gunmen stormed the location of Mursal Nabizada and sprayed bullets connected Saturday night, sidesplitting her and 1 her bodyguards and critically injuring 1 of her brothers," Zadran told Xinhua.

An probe has been initiated to place the perpetrators and bring to justness the culprits, the spokesperson added.

Nabizada served arsenic a subordinate of Wolesi Jirga, oregon little location of the erstwhile Afghan parliament, during the erstwhile authorities which collapsed pursuing the withdrawal of the US-led forces successful August 2021.

No radical oregon idiosyncratic has claimed work for the assassination of the erstwhile lawmaker. Neither her household members nor the constabulary person pointed fingers astatine immoderate peculiar radical oregon individual.

Afghanistan's superior Kabul has been the country of expanding information incidents implicit the past respective months. A blast adjacent to the Foreign Ministry near astatine slightest 5 dormant and injured implicit a twelve others connected Wednesday.