Local sources told Afghanistan International that on Friday night, a doctor had been killed at his house by "unknown armed men" in Darah Sof district of Samangan province. According to the sources, the doctor was the director of a public hospital in the district.
According to the sources, four armed men entered the doctor’s house and killed him. There is no information about the motive behind his murder.
The murdered doctor had been employed with the ministry of public health of Afghanistan and served in Ghazni, Badakhshan and Takhar provinces.
With the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban in Afghanistan, reports of murder and killing of Afghan citizens have become a regular affair.
On Thursday, sources reported that the bodies of three men, including two brothers had been found in Bamiyan. These men had been shot dead in the province.
