The photos shared on social networks showed a white minibus with significant damage on the front.
Kabul, Afghanistan:
A roadside bomb killed a journalist and a driver on Saturday after hitting a minivan carrying workers from a private Afghan TV channel in Kabul, killing a journalist and the driver, the director said. information and chain managers.
The couple died when the bus carrying 15 Khurshid TV employees was hit, news director Jawed Farhad told AFP.
The Interior Ministry also confirmed the attack, saying the van had been targeted.
“The target of the explosion was Khurshid’s private television vehicle,” said a ministry statement.
The photos shared on social networks showed a white minibus with significant damage on the front.
It was the second such attack targeting employees of the chain in less than a year.
In August 2019, two passers-by were killed when a “sticky bomb” – a type of homemade explosive attached to vehicles with magnets – hit a similar pickup truck from Khurshid TV.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which injured three workers, and no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday.
Afghanistan is one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists, who face many risks in covering the country’s long conflict and who have sometimes been the target of their work.
The latest attack comes during an overall drop in violence across much of Afghanistan since the Taliban offered a three-day surprise ceasefire on May 24.
As the truce ended on Tuesday evening, the violence remained largely weak, although Afghan security forces suffered some attacks that the authorities blamed on the Taliban.
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