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| Journalist Sayyed Marof Saadat |
Authorities on Sunday confirmed that three people, including a journalist, have been killed in a shooting in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar for which no group has claimed responsibility so far.
"Journalist and author Sayyed Marof Saadat along with his relatives were travelling in a sedan along a road in Police District 5 of Jalalabad city on Saturday evening when gunmen in a rickshaw opened fire on them," a security source told Xinhua anonymously.
As per sources, Saadat's son and the driver of the vehicle were wounded in the shooting. The Taliban however 'claims' to investigative the matter.
An independent Afghan media group Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) has condemned the murder.
Since the Taliban takeover in mid-August, at least 10 people have been killed and many others wounded as Jalalabad, about 120 km in the east of Afghanistan's Kabul, was hit by a series of bomb attacks reportedly claimed by militants affiliated to an Islamic State group opposing the Taliban government.
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