Ahmadsha Matanwal

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Ahmadsha Matanwal

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Targeted Killing

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Additional information

Date of birth:

1989
Village/Town of birth:

Unknown
Province of birth:

Khost: Khost Matun
Gender:

Male
Ethnicity:

Pashtun
Education:

Unknown
Date of the main incident:

April 30, 2018
Place of the main incident:

Khost
Related incident:

Incident description

Nine journalists were killed in suicide bombings in the country's capital, Kabul. Shah Marai of Agence France Presse was among a group of journalists who died when a bomber disguised as a TV cameraman detonated a second bomb at the site of an earlier explosion. Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State.

In a separate incident, Ahmad Shah, a 29-year-old reporter with the BBC’s Afghan service, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Khost Province, the BBC said. Najib Sharifi, director of the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee, said Shah was on his way home when the attack took place.

Source

BBC

Alleged type of harm

Psychological costs: Experienced scenes of clashes and violence
Psychological costs: Faces traumas and anxiety
Psychological costs: Have been otherwise mentally, emotionally and psychologically harmed and affected
Psychological costs: Seen people killed and injured or tortured
Human costs: Injured
Human costs: Killed

Alleged type of crimes