Anti-Taliban Sushmita Shot Dead

Indian national Sushmita Banerjee, whose memoir about her dramatic escape from the Taliban was turned into a Bollywood film, was shot dead in Afghanistan by suspected militants, the police said on Thursday. Banerjee, 49, was killed outside her Paktika province home. She was married to Afghan businessman Jaanbaz Khan and had recently moved back to Afghanistan to live with him.

Taliban militants arrived at her home in the provincial capital of Kharana, tied up her husband and other family members, took Banerjee out and shot her, the police was quoted as saying.

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