Kabul Blast Hits Journalists
A double suicide bombing in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed at least 25 people, including a number of journalists and police. RFE/RL journalists Abadullah Hananzia and Sabawoon Kakar were among the dead.
RFE/RL Journalists Among 25 Killed In Kabul Suicide Bombings
KABUL -- Two RFE/RL journalists were among at least 25 people killed in a pair of coordinated suicide bombings that rocked central Kabul near the headquarters of Afghanistan's intelligence agency.
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RFE/RL Journalists Among Dozens Dead In Kabul Bombings
Two RFE/RL journalists were among at least 25 people killed in a double suicide bombing in the Afghan capital, Kabul on April 30.
Slain Young Journalists Saw RFE/RL As A Way To Make Afghanistan A Better Place
Radio Free Afghanistan journalist Abadullah Hananzai was furious on April 25 when he learned that a former colleague had been gunned down at a market in Kandahar in an apparent targeted killing.
"The murder of my former colleague at Kabul News, a great journalist named Abdul Manan Arghand, has greatly upset me," Hananzai wrote in Pashto on his Facebook page. "Arghand is now a martyr for freedom of speech."
It would be Hananzai's last public Facebook post.
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