Gunmen charge Kabul TV hire in ongoing attack, casualties feared
As a conflict unfolded, Shamshad TV, a Pashto denunciation broadcaster, stopped normal programming, transmitting usually a still image. PHOTO: TWITTER
KABUL: A private radio hire in a Afghan collateral came underneath conflict on Tuesday by a array of gunmen who pennyless into a building after an explosion, officials said.
A twitter from a station’s Twitter comment pronounced staffers reported several casualties inside a building and staff members reached by write pronounced between dual and 5 people seemed to have been killed.
Kabul military orator Basir Mujahid pronounced casualties were feared though he pronounced a array was still unclear. He pronounced a conflict began with an blast during a embankment of a hire followed by gunmen who stormed in. One of a enemy was killed immediately though others fought off confidence army with palm grenades.
As a conflict unfolded, Shamshad TV, a Pashto denunciation broadcaster, stopped normal programming, transmitting usually a still image.
#ShamshadTV – TOLOnews publisher reports from stage says insurgents detonated bomb device during embankment and afterwards gunmen stormed a building
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“I saw 3 enemy on confidence cameras entering a TV hire building. They initial shot a ensure and afterwards entered a building. They started throwing grenades and firing,” Shamshad TV contributor Faisal Zaland, who transient by a behind door, told AFP.
Zaland told AFP that confidence army were in a area of a Shamshad devalue in a Afghan collateral “trying to move down a attackers”.
“Many of my colleagues are still in a building,”
There was no evident denote of casualties or a temperament of a enemy though Taliban insurgents released an evident rejection that they were involved.
The conflict is a latest in a array of assaults on Afghan reporters and media workers. Last year 7 members of Afghanistan’s largest private radio station, Tolo, were killed by a Taliban self-murder bomber.
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Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1551974/3-gunmen-storm-kabul-tv-station-ongoing-attack/