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A file photo taken on March 6, 2003 shows Indian author Sushmita Banerjee holding one of her Bengali language novels “Mollah Omar Taliban O Aami” (Mollah Omar, Taliban and Me) in Kolkata. AFP PHOTO

KHOST: Suspected Taliban in Afghanistan have shot dead Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, writer of a popular book about her dramatic escape from the militants in the 90s, police said on Thursday.

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