Nine journalists including Shah Marai (the chief photographer of French news agency, Agence France-Presse in Afghanistan) were among thirty one people killed in twin suicide blasts in Kabul (Afghan capital) on Monday, April 30, 2018 and forty nine (49) people were seriously wounded in the attacks. According to the report our correspondent gathered, in the first attack, the suicide bomber attacked a foreign military convoy with his explosives-laden vehicle near the headquarters of the Afghan intelligence services in the southern province of Kandahar. Eleven (11) children studying in a nearby madrassa (religious school) were killed and 16 others wounded. Some minutes after the first attack, a suicide bomber who posed as a journalist apparently targeted reporters detonated his explosives among the crowd where journalists gathered to cover the first attack. The attacks came a week after 60 people were killed at a voter registration centre in Kabul. The Islamic State group have claimed responsibility for the two attacks. May the souls of the dead rest in peace.
Source: Viewers Corner News.