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| birth_place = [[Calcutta, India]] (present-day [[Kolkata, India]]) | | birth_place = [[Calcutta, India]] (present-day [[Kolkata, India]]) | ||
| death_date = 4/5 September 2013 (aged | | death_date = 4/5 September 2013 (aged 57) | ||
| death_place = [[Paktika Province|Paktika Province, Afghanistan]] | | death_place = [[Paktika Province|Paktika Province, Afghanistan]] | ||
| notableworks = ''Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou''<br>(''A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife'') | | notableworks = ''Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou''<br>(''A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife'') | ||
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==Death== | ==Death== | ||
According to Afghan police, suspected Taliban terrorists forced | According to Afghan police, suspected Taliban terrorists forced enters into her house in Paktika on the night of 4 September 2013. They bound her husband and absconded with her. Her corpse was found early the next day on the outskirts of provincial capital [[Sharana, Afghanistan|Sharana]]. The body had 20 bullet hole marks. Police surmised she might have been targeted for various reasons.<ref name="cnn deathnews"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/south-asia/sushmita-banerjee-was-shot-25-times-taliban-deny-responsibility_874583.html|title=Sushmita Banerjee was killed for not wearing burqa?|work=Zee News|date=2013-09-06}}</ref> The Taliban denied involvement.<ref>{{cite news|title=Indian diarist Sushmita Banerjee shot dead in Afghanistan|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-23968427|newspaper=BBC News|date=5 September 2013}}</ref> Later, a spokesman for a renegade Taliban militia group announced it had killed Banerjee because they believed she was "an Indian spy".<ref>Yousafzai, Sami and Moreau, Ron (14 September 2013) [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/14/we-killed-sushmita-banerjee-says-renegade-taliban-militia.html ‘We Killed Sushmita Banerjee’ Says Renegade Taliban Militia] thedailybeast.com</ref> | ||
==Books== | ==Books== | ||