KABUL– Three people, including a journalist, have been killed, in a shooting in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, authorities confirmed today.

“Journalist and author, Sayyed Marof Saadat, along with his relatives were travelling in a sedan, along a road in Police District 5 of Jalalabad city when gunmen in a rickshaw opened fire on them,” a security source said.

Saadat’s son and the driver of the vehicle were wounded in the shooting, the source said.

An independent Afghan media group, Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC), condemned the murders.

No group has claimed responsibility for the shooting so far. Taliban authorities were investigating the case, according to the source.

Since the Taliban takeover in mid-Aug, at least 10 people have been killed and many others wounded, as Jalalabad, about 120 km in the east of Afghanistan’s Kabul, was hit by a series of bomb attacks, reportedly claimed by militants affiliated to a Daesh group, opposing the Taliban government.

Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK