Kabul: Jan 26, 2014
A young Afghan journalist Mohammad Shahed Naeemi, lost his life following a suicide attack in capital Kabul early Sunday morning.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the bomber targeted a bus carrying Afghan National Army (ANA) staff to work. Two civilians and two ANA soldiers were killed and 22 others wounded in the bombing.
The director of Nawa Radio Station and Sabah TV channel told to Afghanistan Journalists Center said that Naeemi an employee of the radio happened to be near the bus; waiting for the staff car.
Mohammad Shahed Naeemi 22 was hired as producer and host of two social and literary programs of Nawa Radio as of September 2013, she added.
Taliban claimed responsibility behind the attack claimed the worst since a devastating assault on a Lebanese restaurant on January 17th killed 21 foreigners and Afghan civilians.
Naeemi was the second Afghan journalist to lose his life in four days, after body of Noor Ahmad Noori, producer and presenter of local Boost radio was discovered in capital of southern Helmand province on Thursday.
AFJC’s finding shows, as many as 39 journalists, writers and other media workers have been killed in Afghanistan -- 23 of them in targeted attacks -- and 16 others in fighting and explosions, since 1993.