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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 12:23 PM Feb 2016

11-year-old Afghan boy, hailed as hero for fighting Taliban, killed by militants

Source: CNN

(CNN)An 11-year-old Afghan boy who had been praised for his bravery in leading security forces in battle against the Taliban was killed by the militants this week, Afghan authorities said.

Wasil Ahmad had commanded a police unit for 43 days as it fought to repel a deadly 71-day Taliban siege last year, according to his uncle Mullah Samad, an Afghan Local Police commander in the Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province.

Gunmen on motorbikes shot the boy in the head Monday at a market in Tarin Kowt, the provincial capital of Uruzgan province, said Dost Mohammad Nayab, spokesman for the province's governor.

Wasil was taken to a local hospital, then transferred to a better-equipped hospital in Kandahar, where he died of his injuries, Nayab said.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/04/asia/afghanistan-boy-hero-taliban-killed/

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11-year-old Afghan boy, hailed as hero for fighting Taliban, killed by militants (Original Post) jpak Feb 2016 OP
It is sad when a society doesn't have any adults willing to take leadership and have to LiberalArkie Feb 2016 #1
11 years old. barbtries Feb 2016 #2
... secondwind Feb 2016 #3
RIP Mr. Ahmad leftynyc Feb 2016 #4
this is so sad and the reason i am so concerned about radical islam MariaThinks Feb 2016 #5
Poor little boy. I am so sorry for him and his family. smirkymonkey Feb 2016 #6
One side turned a boy into a target daleo Feb 2016 #7

LiberalArkie

(15,716 posts)
1. It is sad when a society doesn't have any adults willing to take leadership and have to
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 12:33 PM
Feb 2016

rely on children.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
6. Poor little boy. I am so sorry for him and his family.
Thu Feb 4, 2016, 09:50 PM
Feb 2016

I hate these people that kill innocent little children and women.

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