KABUL: A foreign female journalist was killed while the other sustained critical injuries when a gunman dressed as a police officer opened fire on them in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, police said.
Police said that the incident took place inside a police district headquarters in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost.
In a statement a spokesman for the governor of Khost province, Mobariz Zadran, said that the assailant was actually a policeman.
“Naqibullah, a policeman in Tani district of Khost, opened fire on two foreign journalists. One was killed and one was wounded,” the governor spokesman told media.
The incident occurred a day before the war-torn country will hold its third presidential and provincial council elections since the fall of the Taliban.
The Afghan Taliban have vowed a campaign of violence to disrupt the polls scheduled for April 5, urging their fighters to attack polling staff, voters and security forces in the run-up to election day.
