article_snippet: This horrific scene's already had ripple effects, including a United Nations statement on Friday condemning what it called "the brutal killing and burning of a 27-year-old mentally ill woman.
article_snippet: That corresponds with what the woman's parents told CNN affiliate Tolo News, saying what the woman's parents told CNN affiliate
article_snippet: It's not known whether their daughter attackers knew this, or that this would have mattered.
article_snippet: What motivated the mob, according to witnesses, was a belief that their daughter had burned the Quran.
article_snippet: CNN hasn't seen any proof that their daughter set a copy ablaze.
article_snippet: Mark Bowden, acting head of the U.N. Afghanistan mission, said that burning the Quran hurts efforts to promote "understanding and mutual respect between cultures and religions.
article_snippet: "However, the brutal murder of their daughter is an unspeakably horrendous act," Mark Bowden said, "that should result in those responsible being prosecuted, to the fullest extent possible, under Afghan law."
article_snippet: Nahid, a 45-year-old woman who goes only by one name, told CNN what their daughter saw and heard outside the Shah Do Shamshera shrine, which is opposite a mosque by the same name.
article_snippet: A group of women were shouting at the eventual victim, accusing their daughter of burning the Quran, according to Nahid.
article_snippet: their daughter yelled back.
article_snippet: The hits and kicks ended after someone poured fuel on their daughter and lit their daughter on fire, said Nahid, who watched from inside the shrine.
article_snippet: (They) burned their daughter and then threw their daughter corpse away in the Kabul River," their daughter said.
article_snippet: President Ashraf Ghani government is "committed to protecting and safeguarding all Islamic values," including prohibitions on burning the Quran (if that is, indeed, what their daughter did).
highlights_snippet: She was accused of burning the Quran, though there's no evidence