The bodies of four women shot dead in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif have been recovered. The women are said to have taken part in protests after the Taliban came to power.
According to media reports, the women were mysteriously killed and their bodies were found in a pit in the town of Khalid bin Waleed in Maraz Sharif on Thursday.
The town is located in the first district of Mazar-e-Sharif. At least one of the women was said to be a university teacher and an activist for women’s rights.
Her husband told the media that his wife had been killed.
But her father, Abdul Rahman Safi, told the media that his daughter had been called by a man who identified himself as a human rights activist. On the same day, she left home with her documents and lost contact with her family two hours later.
The identities of the other three women killed have not yet been revealed and their bodies are being kept at a hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif.
Some civil society activists have told the media that the four women were colleagues and friends, who were abducted a week ago near Mazar-e-Sharif airport and their bodies were found in a ditch four days later.
The women were reportedly on their way to the airport to travel abroad.
At another sperate incident, Taliban entered a home of former military officer, killing his wife, another woman and a relative, a video has surfaced in the media claims.The incident is said to have taken place in Faqirabad area of Mazar-e-Sharif.
