Ministry of defence brings mutilated Afghan woman to Spain for surgery
Monday, July 14, 2014 @ 10:34 AM
SPAIN'S ministry of defence has brought an Afghan woman back to Madrid for surgery after her husband cut off her lips, nose and ears.
The 24-year-old, who was married at age nine and had the first of her four children when she was 11, has been living off charitable aid from local humanitarian organisations since the attack six months ago.
She was taken to Madrid in a Spanish Armed Forces aircraft which had travelled to the city of Herat to relieve soldiers on duty.
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