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| Gunmen Shoot Girl Who Fled Family in Baghlan |
| 2014-04-21 |
| [Tolo News] Local officials in northern Baghlan province on Sunday said unknown gunnies rubbed out an Afghan girl on Saturday while she was returning home after seeking asylum with provincial authorities the day before. The incident took place in Pul-e-Khumri district, along the Tala and Barfak district highway, and the gunnies were able to flee the scene before police arrived. The girl was named Amina. Amina fled from her home on Friday to get asylum at the provincial Ministry of Women's Affairs, according to the Ministry's representative, Khadija Yaqeen. She was picked up by the National Directorate of Security (NDS), investigated and then brought to the provincial Women's Affairs office. "I decided to run away because I was not happy with my fiancé" Amena told officials on Friday. "I am going back to my father's house and there is no threat to me; I am going with my brother because I trust that my brother will not tease me." The girl spent a night at the Ministry and on Saturday she decided to go back to her family home. Amina and her fiancé were living at her father's house. "She kept insisting that she wanted to be sent home, so we contacted her family and her family came to the Directorate and she was presented to go home, but then she was killed on the way home," Yaqeen said. Ahmad Jawid Basharat, the Baghlan Police Chief, said the unknown gunnies shot Amina while she was with some of her family members. He seemed to place partial blame on the local office of Women's Affairs, which he said failed to coordinate Amina's departure with police. "Amena beat feet from home on Friday and came to Pul Khumri city and was incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... by the NDS and after an investigation, she was sent to the Directorate of Women Affairs of Baghlan," Basharat said. "The Directorate of Women Affairs, without keeping police in the loop, handed her over to her family..." |
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