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Former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada and her bodyguard were shot dead at her home in Kabul early Sunday morning, according to Kabul police.
Nabizada represented Kabul in Afghanistan’s parliament from 2019 until the government was overthrown by the Taliban in August 2021. She was one of the few female former lawmakers who remained in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over.
Nabizada’s brother was also injured in the attack, said Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran, who added that an investigation was underway to determine who carried out the attack.
According to local police chief Molvi Hamidullah Khalid, the shooting happened around 3 a.m. local time on Sunday.
Sunday’s shooting is the first time a lawmaker from the previous administration has been killed in the city since the Taliban seized power, but there are signs of a worsening security situation in the country’s capital.
Last week, at least five people were killed in an explosion near Afghanistan’s foreign ministry on Wednesday, according to police in Kabul.
“The growing insecurity is of grave concern,” the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan wrote in a statement condemning the attack. “Violence is not part of any solution to achieving lasting peace in Afghanistan.”
Since the Taliban took control of the country, multiple attacks have claimed dozens of lives in the capital.
Last September, a suicide bomber killed at least 25 people, mostly young women, at an education center in Kabul.
Earlier that month, six people, including two Russian embassy staff, were killed in a suicide bombing near the Russian embassy.
In August, an explosion at a mosque during evening prayers killed 21 people and injured 33.
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