November 17, 2017
Kabul: An Afghan journalist, who was seriously injured during a suicide attack in Kabul, succumbed to his wounds in hospital, officials said Friday November 17, 2017.
A suicide attacker blew himself up outside a political gathering in Kabul killing at least 14 people and injured 20 others including two journalists from local Rah-e-Farda TV station, officials said.
Kabul police spokesman Basir Mujahid said Hosain Nazari, the cameraman was seriously injured and died at hospital after few hours in coma.
Also, head of Mitra TV Tahir Qaderi told AFJC that his colleagues were transmitting the event live, no one was wounded but a staff vehicle of the station was destroyed in the attack.
Islamic State group (ISIS or Daesh) claimed the deadly attack in a brief message via its Amaq propaganda agency.
Death of Nazari brought to 11 the number of journalists and media workers killed in Afghanistan in 2017. Afghanistan Journalists Center's findings show that since 1993 as many as 74 journalists and media workers have been killed in Afghanistan – 14 of them women journalists.