Washington (Kavian Press) -Unknown gunmen shot and killed Mohammad Yousuf Rasheed, the head of an independent Afghan elections watchdog on Wednesday in Kabul the capital city of Afghanistan. He was shot on his way to work while his driver was wounded and taken to the hospital.
The same day in different attack a police car was targeted by a sticky bomb killing one police officer and wounding two others.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks.
A day earlier a roadside bomb targeted a police vehicle carrying military personnel and doctors on their way to work at the city’s prison. Among those killed in Tuesday’s attack was Nazefa Ibrahimi, the acting health director of the prison. The vehicle was almost completely destroyed in the blast.
The ISIS group claimed responsibility for that attack and multiple others in recent months, including the attack on educational institutions that killed 50 people, mostly students.
On Monday unknown gunmen killed an Afghan journalist in the eastern city of Ghazni, the third reporter be killed in the last two months.
Rahmatullah Nekzad was shot dead with a silenced pistol by unknown gunmen near his home on his way to local mosque, according to Ghazni province’s police spokesman Ahmad Khan Seerat
Nekzad, worked on a freelance basis for The Associated Press news agency and the Al Jazeera broadcast network, according to the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee.
In a tweet, the Al Jazeera Media Network said it was “shocked at the news of the killing” and strongly condemned “any act of violence against journalists and attempts to silence them”.
Violence in Afghanistan has spiked in recent months as the inter-Afghan peace talks are hold in Doha between the Taliban and Afghan government.
