KABUL: An official says gunmen have shot and wounded a top
female police officer in Afghanistan's south, months after her
predecessor was killed.
The shooting Sunday morning in Helmand's province's Lashkar Gah
district was the latest in a series of attacks on prominent Afghan
women.
Provincial government spokesman Omar Zawak says two attackers on a
motorbike shot a 35-year-old police officer, who he identified only as
Negar, in the right shoulder outside her home.
The attackers escaped.
Negar, a five-year veteran of the department, is expected to survive.
She had replaced the late Islam Bibi as a senior investigator.
Bibi was also the highest ranking female police officer in Helmand
until her assassination in July. Several prominent Afghan women have
been attacked or kidnapped in recent months.
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