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AFGHANISTAN-UNREST
Armed men kill 4 members of family, including 3 children in Kabul
KABUL, Jan 20, 2020 (BSS/Xinhua) – A group of unknown armed men entered a
house in the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday and killed four members of a
family, including three children, Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi
said Monday.
According to Rahimi, the unidentified armed men sneaked into the house of
a government employee in Police District 7 on Sunday evening and brutally
killed four members of the family, including the mother and three children.
It was the second brutal killing of family members in the war-battered
country over the past three days.
In a similar gruesome incident on Saturday, some unidentified armed men
entered a house in Andkhoi district of the northern Faryab province, killing
four members of a family, provincial police spokesman Abdul Karim Yurash
said.
Rahimi said investigation is underway to identify and bring to justice
those behind the crime
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