Originally published on March 12, 2014
A gunman shot dead a Swedish journalist in a heavily guarded district in Kabul on Tuesday morning (March 11).
According to Reuters, Swedish radio correspondent, Nils Horner was standing outside a Lebanese restaurant with his driver and translator in Wazir Akbar district of Kabul when two men in Western clothes approached him. One of the men shot him at point-blank range in the back of the head.
No group has claimed the responsibility for the attack.
The attack took place near a Lebanese restaurant where 21 people were killed in January in an attack launched by the Taliban.
Horner was the South Asia correspondent for the Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio. He had been previously stationed in New York and London and had only recently arrived in Kabul, according to the Washington Post.
The New York Times reported that the daylight attack was the first time in years that a Westerner appeared to have been specifically targeted and killed in Kabul.
