Friday, 4 June 2021 (YJC) _ A presenter at Ariana News, and her mother are among the victims of Yesterday afternoon’s blast in Kabul.
Mina Khairi, a presenter at Ariana News, and her mother are among the victims of Thursday afternoon’s blast in Kabul that killed four people, the head of the Ariana News, Sharif Hassanyar, confirmed.
Mina’s sister was wounded in the incident. Khairi worked as an anchor in morning shows for Ariana News for the last three years, her colleagues said.
She went home from the office on Thursday and was outside with her mother and sister when the blast happened.
The blast happened at around 1:45 pm local time in Chahar Qala area Kabul’s District 6, targeting a small bus.
Six more civilians, including two women and a child, were wounded in the explosion.
Four more civilians were killed in another in the west of Kabul on the same day. Five more civilians were wounded in the blast.
This comes as TOLOnews anchor Nemat Rawan was killed in an attack by unknown armed men in Kandahar on May 7.
According to a recent report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, at least 11 human rights defenders and media workers were killed in targeted attacks in Afghanistan from September 2020 to January 31, 2021.
A total of 65 human rights defenders and media professionals were killed in the period from January 1, 2018, to January 31, 2021, the report said.
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