A player of the youth volleyball team of Afghanistan, Mahjubin Hakimi, was beheaded by the Taliban in Kabul.
According to the Indian media, he was reported to the Persian Independent by one of his coaches, identified for security reasons with the pseudonym Suraya Afzali.
The girl was allegedly murdered in early October, but the news was not disclosed by her family for fear of reprisals.
According to the coach, the circumstances of the killing of the sportswoman were known only to family members. Before the self-styled Koranic students came to power, the media specified, the volleyball player played for the municipal team of the Afghan capital. Of the players of the national youth team, added the coach, only two managed to escape abroad, while all the others "were forced to flee and hide" and attempts to find "help from international organizations and countries were unsuccessful. ".
In recent weeks, about thirty athletes from the Afghanistan national volleyball team had already said they feared violence and reprisals by the Taliban for their sporting activity, asking the international community to help them leave the country.
Some of their teammates who had managed to escape had reported the killing in August of another player of the team with gunshots.
