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Taliban Kill Mayor of Shindand

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Taliban fighters shot dead the mayor of the Afghan city of Shindand on Friday, Pazhwok news agency reported.

Taliban fighters shot dead the mayor of the Afghan city of Shindand on Friday, Pazhwok news agency reported.

Mayor Abdul Salam Rakhimi was at a meeting after Friday prayers with local market traders in Shindand in the country's western Herat region when he was shot by assassins on a motorcycle, according to the press secretary of the security forces in Herat.

Rakhimi, who was one of many seriously injured in a hail of gunfire, died on the way to hospital.

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