Afghanistan's deadliest day for media

A man cries at a hospital after he lost his Journalist son in explosions in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 30, 2018. A coordinated double suicide bombing hit central Kabul on Monday morning, (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

A man cries at a hospital after he lost his Journalist son in the second blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 30, 2018. Source: AP Photo/Rahmat Gul

Only days before World Press Freedom Day (May 3) ten journalists have died in separate attacks in Afghanistan.


Dozens have been killed and many more injured in twin suicide bombings in Afghanistan's capital, nine were journalists. A tenth journalist, BBC reporter Ahmad Shah, was killed in a shooting in the eastern Afghanistan city of Khost on the same day. Journalist Lao Petrilli reports.


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