Press release
Director-General urges investigation into killing of television journalist Mina Khairi in Afghanistan

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay has condemned the murder of journalist Mina Khairi in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 3 June, in an attack which also claimed the lives of her mother, sister and two other passengers in the public minivan in which she was traveling.
Khairi, a news presenter for Ariana Television Network, died in an explosion caused by a bomb that was attached to the minivan she was riding in to get home from food shopping. The victim’s mother as well as two other passengers were also immediately killed by the blast. The victim’s sister was fatally wounded and passed away in the hospital days later. Several others were also wounded.
Khairi is the fifth Afghan women journalists whose killing has been registered by UNESCO over the past year.
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