A U.S. soldier stand guard on the top of an armored vehicle near the site of an explosion in Kapisa province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. A suicide bomber killed three American troops and an Afghan civilian after ramming an explosive-laden vehicle into a military convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)How Afghanistan's Little Tragedies Are Adding Up -- Time Magazine
There are large-scale civilian deaths in Afghanistan that make headlines, and then there are the small incidents that are barely noticed at all. That was the fate of 12-year-old Benafsha Shaheem.
On May 3, she was traveling with family members from her village in western Farah province to a wedding party in the neighboring province of Herat. Packed into a white Toyota Corolla wagon, they neared the outskirts of the city of Herat when, according to a report compiled by the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, the vehicle was fired on by an Italian patrol convoy. Benafsha was seated in the middle of the backseat wearing a red dress, her relatives say. She was shot in the face and died instantly. Her mother was wounded in the chest.
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