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    Two blasts in Kabul kill 21, including AFP photographer

    Two blasts in Kabul kill 21, including AFP photographer
    Written by Shalini Ojha
    Apr 30, 2018, 01:02 pm 1 min read
    Two blasts in Kabul kill 21, including AFP photographer

    Twin blasts in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, on Monday morning, killed at least 21 including AFP's chief photographer Shah Marai. The first explosion was carried by an assailant driving a motorcycle in Kabul's Shashdarak district. After a while, when camera persons and journalists assembled at the scene, a second explosion occurred. The second blast was reportedly targeted at media persons.

    AFP confirms death of photographer

    #UPDATE Agence France-Presse's chief photographer in Kabul, Shah Marai, has been killed.
    He died in a blast that was targeting a group of journalists who had rushed to the scene of a suicide attack in the Afghan capital pic.twitter.com/rOa4rg24x9

    — AFP news agency (@AFP) April 30, 2018

    No group claims responsibility for the blast

    The Shashdarak district has defense ministry, intelligence service, and a NATO compound. A Reuters photographer was also injured in the blast. The blasts come a week after 60 people were injured at a voter registration bank. Till now no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Officials have warned of violence ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for October.

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