{"id":49112,"date":"2014-04-04T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=49112"},"modified":"2014-04-04T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T10:06:04","slug":"woman-journalist-killed-another-injured-in-afghanistan-49112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/woman-journalist-killed-another-injured-in-afghanistan-49112\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman journalist killed, another injured in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49118\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-49118 \" alt=\"File picture of AP photo journalist Anja Niedringhaus, who died in attack in Afghanistan today.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Anja-Niedringhaus-AP-Afghanistan-Nationalturk-4.jpg\" width=\"419\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Anja-Niedringhaus-AP-Afghanistan-Nationalturk-4.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Anja-Niedringhaus-AP-Afghanistan-Nationalturk-4-280x210.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File picture of AP photo journalist Anja Niedringhaus, who died in attack in Afghanistan today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>A man in police uniform believed to be policeman killed a veteran woman photo journalist of AP and injured another in Afghanistan on Friday.<\/h1>\n<p>Kabul, April 4\/Nationalturk \u2013 In yet another attack on media persons, a man in police uniform believed to be policeman killed a veteran Associated Press woman journalist and injured another in Afghanistan on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials said two Western women journalists, both associated with AP were fired from point blank range by a man in police uniform in police district headquarters in eastern city of Khost in Afghanistan this morning.<\/p>\n<p>They said one of the woman journalist, working for AP, was killed and other seriously injured in the attack.\u00a0 \u201cThe injured journalist has been hospitalised\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Assailant was policeman\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>A spokesman for governor of Khost province, Mobariz Zadran while confirming the attack said the assailant was actually a policeman rather than simply posing as one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaqibullah, a policeman in Tani district of Khost, opened fire on two foreign journalists. One was killed and one was wounded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased journalist has been identified as AP photo journalist Anja Niedringhaus, 48, and vetran reporter Kathy Gannon was injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Anja is an internationally acclaimed German photographer while Gannon, 60, is a Canadian journalist based in Islamabad for AP. She has covered war and unrest in Afghanistan and Pakistan for three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press has confirmed killing of its photographer Anja Niedringhaus. It has said its reporter Kathy Gannon was injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<h3>3rd attack on journalists in 2 months<\/h3>\n<p>Today\u2019s attack is the third deadly attack on journalists in Afghanistan in as many months.<\/p>\n<p>A journalist with Swedish and British nationality, Nils Horner, was shot dead in Kabul by gunmen on 11 March.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, last month, an Afghan journalist associated with AFP was killed in Taliban attack inside a heavily fortified luxury hotel in the centre of the capital, Kabul.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk Afghanistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in police uniform believed to be policeman killed a veteran woman photo journalist of AP and injured another in Afghanistan on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,17,1,118,101,14],"tags":[2595,10003,67267,67260,67262,9854,67269,2724,67268,67264,67265,67266,47022,67261,41733,67263],"class_list":["post-49112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-afp","tag-anja-niedringhaus","tag-ap","tag-ap-woman-photo-journalist","tag-associated-press","tag-canadian-journalist","tag-islamabad","tag-kathy-gannon","tag-khost","tag-mobariz-zadran","tag-naqibullah","tag-point-blank-range","tag-police-uniform","tag-policeman","tag-western-women-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}