Killing (Afghanistan)
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28
Dec
2017
Said Mehdi Hosaini
A suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 28, 2017 killed a journalist and injured nine other colleagues. Said Mehdi Hosaini, a journalist working for Afghan Voice News Agency, was killed in the suicide bomb attack which took place at the Tebyan Culture Center building in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, where the news agency is based.
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31
May
2017
Aziz Navin and Mohammad Nazeer
TOLO TV’s staff technician Aziz Navin and BBC Kabul’s staff driver Mohammad Nazeer were killed when a powerful bomb was detonated inside a parked vehicle at the Zanbaq Square, near the diplomatic enclave in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan on the morning of May 31. At least 80 people were killed and more than 400 were injured in the suicide attack. Four BBC journalists were injured as their vehicle was hit by the explosion. Radio producer Tajudin Sarosh, reporters Hidayatullah Hamim, Ayub Arwen and Abdullah Nizami were taken to hospital for treatment and are reportedly out of danger. Three media staff were injured in nearby TV1 station. Three media staff of TOLO TV and a staff member of Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) were also injured in the blast.
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17
May
2017
Afghanistan Public Radio and Television
A deadly suicide attack targeting the Afghanistan Public Radio and Television (RTA) station at Jalalabad city in Nangrahar province on May 17 killed four media workers including a technician and a producer and 17 others injured when four attackers, including two suicide bombers, forced their way into the RTA station at around 9:30 am. The two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the front gate and outside the main building while other attackers entered the main building. It took the security forces more than three hours to end the assault.