Blast Kills Afghan Journalist Working for US Media Outlet – By Ayaz Gul (VOA News) / Nov 12 2020
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – A bomb explosion in Afghanistan’s volatile southern Helmand province Thursday killed a reporter working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Afghan Service, Radio Azadi.
Afghan officials said the slain journalist, Elyas Dayee, and his brother were traveling to the press club in Lashkargah, the provincial capital, when a “magnetic” explosive device ripped through their car. The blast injured his brother, also a journalist, and two others.
Dayee had been reporting from Helmand for more than a decade for the Afghan branch of the U.S. government’s Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s external broadcast services.
No one immediately took responsibility for the early morning bombing in Lashkargah, which has been under attack from Taliban insurgents for almost a month.
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