A teenage girl in Afghanistan, who killed two Taliban militants, is garnering heaps of praises for her bravery lately. The militants had killed her parents last week.
On July 17, a group of 40 insurgents stormed the village of Geriveh, in Ghor province, where Qamar Gul was living with her parents and brothers, officials said.
“The insurgents came to their doorstep and her mother went to see who was knocking,” The Guardian quoted Mohamed Aref Aber, a spokesman for the provincial governor, as saying. “When she saw that they were armed, she refused to open the door,” he added.
The Taliban militants came to her house as her father had reportedly complained about their demands of tax payments. The insurgents beat Gul’s parents ruthlessly and then shot them dead.
According to Aber, Qamar Gul witnessed the death of her parents, she then picked up her father’s rifle and shot 3 militants dead on the spot.
“Qamar Gul, who was inside the house, took an AK-47 gun the family had and first shot dead the two Taliban terrorists who killed her parents, and then injured a few others,” the village chief, local police head Habiburahman Malekzada told the media.
Gul, who is aged between 14 to 16, then started an hour long battle against the militants with the help of some villagers and pro-government militiamen and drove them away from the village.
Gul, along with her younger brother, had been taken to a safer place, the officials have reported.