Five members of a family were killed in Herat

Local officials in Herat reported that five members of a family were killed in Injil district of the province.

They say the incident took place last night in the village of Sarma in Herat’s Injil district, where five members of a family, including three children and a woman, were beheaded.

Meanwhile, Meanwhile, Mohammad Aref Jalali, the chief physician of Herat District Hospital, confirmed the incident and said: “Five dead bodies have been brought to the hospital, including a four-year-old, six-year-old and eight-year-old child, ie three children, a 20-year-old woman and They were an old man in his seventies.

The motive for the killing is not yet clear, but local officials in Herat say efforts are under way to identify the perpetrators.

Targeted killings are still a security challenge in the country, although the Taliban claim that the group has provided security throughout Afghanistan.