Emotions run high as family and friends bury Afghan journalist


  • World
  • Tuesday, 07 Jun 2016

Afghan translator Zabihullah Tamanna posses for photo in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 10, 2014. S. Sabawoon/Handout via Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) - About 200 family, friends and journalists gathered on the outskirts of Kabul on Tuesday to bury a journalist killed in a militant attack on Sunday while assisting an NPR news crew in southern Afghanistan.

Zabihullah Tamanna was killed alongside American photojournalist David Gilkey when the Afghan army Humvee they were riding in was struck by a rocket during a suspected Taliban ambush.

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