Unknown gunmen killed a female doctor in downtown Kandahar city on Wednesday, December 7. An eyewitness, who does not want to be named, tells Zan Times that the shooting occurred around 6 p.m as the doctor was leaving a clinic to go home.
“This doctor was waiting for a taxi when armed men riding a motorcycle with their faces covered shot at her and killed her,” the eyewitness tells Zan Times.
Another source, who also does not want to be named, says that the doctor, a 34-year-old mother of three, worked in a clinic in Arghandab district of Kandahar province.
While the specific motive of this murder has not yet been determined, there has been an increasing number of suspicious deaths of women reported across Afghanistan since the Taliban regained power.
Recently, Zan Times tracked accounts of violent female deaths that it could find in media reports. In the first 11 months of 2022, at least 214 women lost their lives due to unnatural deaths. Out of the 214 female deaths, there were 182 murders reported by the media. Given the circumstances in the country, the media censorship, the disruptions that the media has faced as a result of repression, this is only a small of number of the real number of femicide and suicides in Afghanistan.
