KABUL: Afghan police have arrested two militants over the murder of an Indian writer whose book about her dramatic escape from the Taliban was made into a Bollywood film, an official said on Tuesday.

Sushmita Banerjee, 49, was dragged out of her husband’s house by masked gunmen in Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province and shot dead on Wednesday.

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