8-year-old Afghan boy  who was going home from school allegedly murdered by Taliban for no apparent reason

By Edward Era Barbacena

Mohammad Wasim, an 8-year-old resident of Khaniz village in the Bazarak district of Panjshir. Yesterday, he excitely went to school with his friend to receive the results of their exams. On the way back home, they were stopped by a ranger car belonging to Taliban.

The Taliban placed both boys in the back of the ranger car and said they would be taken them to their village. However, as the car drove on, Mohammad Wasim and his friend realized the car has passed their village and that that they were being taken to a different location.

They started shouting and hitting on the roof of the car from back, begging Taliban to stop, but Taliban didn't pay attention. In fear, they jumped out of the moving car when it passed two other villages from their village.

The Taliban Ranger, upon realizing that Wasim and  another child had thrown themselves out of the back of the car, fled the scene instead of stopping the vehicle. After a while, they were found unconscious and injured on the road by a passing driver, who took them to the Emergency Hospital in Panjshir after he found those boys relatives.

When they arrived at the hospital, the doctors said that the children should be taken to Kabul as soon as possible. But Mohammad Wasim died at the same time. His friend is also in critical condition with a low chance of survival.

When the body of Ahmad Wasim was transferred to his house, the Taliban came in a hurry. When they found out that the child had fallen from the back of a Ranger car belonging to their own group, they left the place and did not return.