Afghanistan - Swedish radio reporter killed by two gunmen on Kabul street

Reporters without borders

Nils Horner, a journalist with Swedish and British dual citizenship, was gunned down on a central Kabul street early today, two days after arriving in Afghanistan to do several reports linked to next month's election for Sveriges Radio, the Swedish public radio station for which he worked as roving correspondent. Aged 51, Horner was shot several times in the head by two unidentified men as left a restaurant in the Wazir Akbar Khan district with his fixer and driver. Kabul police spokesman (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - mardi 11 mars 2014