April 30, 2018
By Euan McKirdy and Ehsan Popalzai
Eight journalists were among 29 people killed in a suicide attack in Kabul Monday, including a famed photographer who had written of the dangers of reporting in the Afghan capital.
The journalists died when a bomber disguised as a TV cameraman detonated a second bomb at the site of an earlier explosion.
The first blast happened at around at 8 a.m. local time in the Shashdarak area of the city, where the US embassy and Afghan government buildings are located, prompting journalists to rush to the scene.
The second explosion came as the attacker, posing as a cameraman, detonated explosives as journalists huddled around the scene, Kabul City Police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai told CNN.
There is no specific information to the identity of the foreign convoy.
April 30, 2018
Kandahar: A suicide bomber (click here) targeted a military convoy in Daman district of Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on Monday killing 11 civilians and injuring over a dozen others, a local official said.
The armed militants conducted a suicide attack against a military convoy, probably foreign military convoy in Abdullah village of Daman district at 10:30 am local time today, killing 11 children and injuring 16 others including nine children and two policemen,” the official with provincial police Public Relation Office told Xinhua....
