[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four women were rubbed out by a relative in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan amid a surge in violence against women across the country.The local security officials in Balkh said the man opened fire on the women in Balkh district late on Sunday night.
Provincial security chief Abdul Razaq Qaderi confirmed the incident and said the assailant managed to flee the area after killing 4 women and leaving two others including a man and a woman maimed.
He said the dead bodies of the victims have been transferred to the hospital and a search operation is underway to arrest the perpetrator.
No further details were given regarding the main motive behind the brutal killling of the women.
This comes as numerous incidents involving murder of women have been reported during the recent months across the country.
A young woman was set on fire by her husband in western Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province of Afghanistan earlier last month.
Earlier, the Talibs executed a 19-year-old girl in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan while a 22-year-old woman was rubbed out in July by her relatives on charges of having relations with an stranger over the telephone.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in its report released late in November last year said "statistic of violence against women, obtained from the registered cases of violence against women during the first six months in 1394 exceeds 2579 cases."
The report further added that figure was reported 2403 cases during the six months in 1393 which shows 7.32 percent increase in 1394, the last solar year.