A man in police uniform believed to be policeman killed a veteran woman photo journalist of AP and injured another in Afghanistan on Friday.
Kabul, April 4/Nationalturk – In yet another attack on media persons, a man in police uniform believed to be policeman killed a veteran Associated Press woman journalist and injured another in Afghanistan on Friday.
Police officials said two Western women journalists, both associated with AP were fired from point blank range by a man in police uniform in police district headquarters in eastern city of Khost in Afghanistan this morning.
They said one of the woman journalist, working for AP, was killed and other seriously injured in the attack. “The injured journalist has been hospitalised”.
‘Assailant was policeman’
A spokesman for governor of Khost province, Mobariz Zadran while confirming the attack said the assailant was actually a policeman rather than simply posing as one.
“Naqibullah, a policeman in Tani district of Khost, opened fire on two foreign journalists. One was killed and one was wounded,” he said.
The deceased journalist has been identified as AP photo journalist Anja Niedringhaus, 48, and vetran reporter Kathy Gannon was injured in the attack.
Anja is an internationally acclaimed German photographer while Gannon, 60, is a Canadian journalist based in Islamabad for AP. She has covered war and unrest in Afghanistan and Pakistan for three decades.
Associated Press has confirmed killing of its photographer Anja Niedringhaus. It has said its reporter Kathy Gannon was injured in the attack.
3rd attack on journalists in 2 months
Today’s attack is the third deadly attack on journalists in Afghanistan in as many months.
A journalist with Swedish and British nationality, Nils Horner, was shot dead in Kabul by gunmen on 11 March.
Earlier, last month, an Afghan journalist associated with AFP was killed in Taliban attack inside a heavily fortified luxury hotel in the centre of the capital, Kabul.
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