Kabul: Three people, including a journalist, have been killed in a shooting in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, authorities confirmed on Sunday.
“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 anonymously.
Saadat’s son and the driver of the vehicle were wounded in the shooting, the source said.
An independent Afghan media group Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) has condemned the murder.
No group has claimed responsibility for the shooting so far. Taliban authorities were investigating the case, according to the source.