Afghan policewoman dies of injuries
Iran Press TV
Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:4AM GMT
Female Afghan police officer Nigar has died of injuries sustained in an attack in the southern province of Helmand.
“I can confirm that Nigar died in the emergency unit of the hospital this morning,” said provincial government spokesman Omar Zhwak on Monday.
The officer was walking near police headquarters in Lashkar Gah on Sunday, when she came under an attack by gunmen riding a motorcycle.
Security sources said the attackers managed to flee the scene before policemen cordoned off the area.
No group has claimed responsibility for the fatal assault, but Kabul often blames the Taliban militants for attacks against government forces.
Nigar served as a sub-inspector in the police criminal investigation department in Helmand Province. She became the highest-ranking female police officer in the volatile province after her predecessor at that rank - Islam Bibi - was murdered in July.
Several prominent Afghan women have been attacked or kidnapped over the past few years.
Unidentified gunmen abducted a female member of the Afghan parliament Fariba Ahmadi Kakar along with her children in the province of Ghazni in August.
In 2008, Lieutenant Colonel Malalai Kakar, the head of Kandahar’s department of crimes against women, was killed by Taliban militants.
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