Three Women Working for a News Outlet Are Gunned Down in Afghanistan
The women, the latest victims in a wave of targeted attacks, were killed on their way home from their jobs at Enikass Radio and TV in Jalalabad.
Hospital workers and relatives moving the body of one of the three media workers killed in two separate attacks in Jalalabad on Tuesday.Credit...Noorullah Shirzada/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Published March 2, 2021Updated March 4, 2021
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Three women who worked at a local news outlet were gunned down in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, according to local officials, adding to the bloody tally of Afghan media workers and journalists who have been killed at alarming rates in the past year.