AK avenger vs. Taliban

Girl kills 2 fighters after parents slain

An Afghan girl used an AK-47 to fatally shoot at least two Taliban fighters — and wound several more — after they raided her home and killed her parents for supporting the government, local officials said.

Some 40 insurgents on Friday stormed the village of Geriveh, in central Ghor province, where 16year-old Qamar Gul was living with her parents and 12-year-old brother, Habibullah, The Guardian reported Tuesday.

The fighters knocked on the door around 1 a.m.

“The insurgents came to their doorstep, and her mother went to see who was knocking,” provincial governor spokesman Mohamed Aref Aber said. “When she saw that they were armed, she refused to open the door.”

The attackers quickly shot Gul’s mother, then barged into the home and fired at her father, according to Aber.

The insurgents were targeting the father, the village chief and a government supporter, local police chief Habiburahman Malekzada told Agence France-Presse. Gul quickly jumped into action. “Qamar Gul, who was inside the house, took an AK-47 gun the family had and first shot dead the two Taliban fighters who killed her parents, and then injured a few others,” the police official told Agence France-Press.

The Guardian later reported that three insurgents were killed, citing Aber.

Several other Taliban fighters later showed up to attack the home, but a group of villagers and pro-government militiamen engaged them in a gunfight, forcing them to retreat.

Afghan security forces have since moved Gul and Habibullah, who stood by his sister during the hourlong ordeal, to a safer place, Aber said.

“They were in shock in the first two days and could not talk too much but are in a good condition now,” he told The Guardian.

“They are saying: ‘This was our right because we did not need to live without our parents.’

“They don’t have many relatives other than a half-brother who lives in the same village.”

Following the shooting, supporters flooded social media with praise for Gul’s “heroic” stand against the Taliban.

A photo of the teen, wearing a headscarf and holding up the rifle, has since gone viral.

“Hats off to her courage!” Facebook user Najiba Rahmi posted. “Well done.”

“Power of an Afghan girl,” another supporter wrote on Facebook.

“We know parents are irreplaceable, but your revenge will give you relative peace,” Mohamed Saleh posted.

BRAVE FACE: This photo of Qamar Gul, 16, has gone viral in the aftermath of a raid on her home, where Taliban fighters murdered her parents for supporting the government — before the teen grabbed the family AK-47 and fired back, forcing the attackers to flee.