Eight Journalists Among 25 Killed in Afghanistan Blasts

Eight Journalists Among 25 Killed in Afghanistan Blasts
Afghan security forces stand guard near the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan April 30, 2018. Reuters/Omar Sobhani
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KABUL—Twin blasts in the Afghan capital Kabul killed at least 25 people on Monday, April 30, including journalists who had arrived to report on the first explosion and who were apparently targeted by a suicide bomber in a second attack, officials said.

The Afghan Journalists Safety Committee said seven journalists had been killed and French news agency Agence France-Presse confirmed that its chief photographer in Afghanistan, Shah Marai, was among the dead. A Reuters photographer was slightly wounded.