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TEHRAN, Mar 13 - An Afghan journalist who has long received death threats was seriously wounded in a bombing in the country's south, while in the western province of Farah, the Taliban stormed an army checkpoint and killed 10 soldiers, officials said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Also in Farah, a local official was gunned down outside his home on Wednesday, a councilman said.
The attacks were the latest violence in war-torn Afghanistan even as the Taliban and the U.S. concluded another round of negotiations held in Qatar, with both sides reporting progress in the talks.
Meanwhile, Afghan officials reported a friendly fire incident Wednesday in southern Uruzgan province involving U.S. and Afghan forces and leading to the death of five Afghan troops. The casualties have not been confirmed.
The U.S. military said only that it was responding to incoming fire on Afghan and American forces on the ground near Tarin Kot in Uruzgan province and conducted a precision airstrike but gave no other details or information on any casualties.
Afghan radio and TV journalist Nesar Ahmad Ahmadi was wounded when a sticky bomb attached to his car exploded as he was heading to work in Helmand province. Omar Zwak, the governor's spokesman, said the attack happened on Tuesday in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital.
Ahmadi had a leg wound and was transferred to Kabul for further treatment, the spokesman said. He runs the Sabahoon radio station and is also a reporter for Sabahoon TV in Helmand.
Source: AP
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