Eid Mohammad Etimadi was abducted and murdered by unknown armed men on Sunday, October 22, 2023. He had gone to a relative’s funeral in Kamarklagh neighborhood of Herat city. On his return, his car was intercepted by the armed men in the Khashrood area of the Injil district of the province. They searched the passengers’ cell phones to identify them and took Etimadi with them. They claimed that they would take him to a nearby Taliban Security Post. However, when his relatives went to the Taliban security posts, they were told that the Taliban had no information about him. His family and relatives looked for him everywhere, but they only found his corpse in the Ghorian district on Monday, October 23.