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AP/AFP March23,2015,12:07amTWN

Hundreds of people gathered in northern Kabul for the funeral of 27-year-old Farkhunda, who like many Afghans is known by only one name.

The crowd, shouting Allah o Akbar (God is greatest), demanded the government bring the killers to justice.

This is a crime against this family, a crime against a sister and a crime against humanity, said Bari Salam, a human rights activist.

All those involved and all those who supported her killing should be brought to justice, he said.

Farkhunda was killed late Thursday by a mob of mostly men who beat her, set her body on fire and then threw it into the Kabul River, according to police accounts. Police are still investigating what prompted the mob assault.

President Ashraf Ghani condemned Farkhunda's killing as a heinous attack and ordered an investigation.

Following allegations that police stood by and did nothing to stop the fatal attack, Ghani said it revealed a fundamental issue the country's police were too focused on the fight against the Taliban insurgency to concentrate on community policing.

His comments followed widespread condemnation of the killing. In Afghanistan, women are generally treated as inferior, despite constitutional guarantees of equality. Violence against women often goes unpunished.

Some Afghan officials and religious leaders sought to justify Farkhunda's killing, alleging that she had burned a Quran.

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