Journalists targeted as double suicide blasts kill and maim in Kabul


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Afghanistan: A coordinated double suicide bombing hit central Kabul on Monday morning, killing 21 people, including an Agence France-Presse photographer and a cameraman for a local TV station, Afghan officials said.


AFP reported that the news agency’s chief photographer in Kabul, Shah Marai, was among those killed. AFP said Marai died in a blast that was targeting a group of journalists who had rushed to the scene of the earlier suicide attack in Kabul.


A man cries at a hospital after he lost his journalist son in an explosion in Kabul.

A man cries at a hospital after he lost his journalist son in an explosion in Kabul.


Photo: AP

Sediqullah Tawhidi, an official form the Afghan Journalist Safety Committee, said a cameraman from the local TOLO TV also was killed. Police officer Jan Agha said the journalists died in the second blast, which also wounded two police officers.


Security forces run from the site of a suicide attack after the second bombing in Kabul.

Security forces run from the site of a suicide attack after the second bombing in Kabul.


Photo: AP

At least 27 people were also wounded in the blasts, according to Wahid Majroh, the public health ministry’s spokesman who gave the latest casualty tolls.


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