Associated Press photographer shot dead in Afghanistan
An AP news agency photographer has been shot dead and her colleague wounded by a police commander in eastern Afghanistan, just days before the country's presidential elections.
AP photographer killed in eastern Afghanistan
The Associated Press news agency has said in a dispatch that its photographer Anja Niedringhaus had been killed in eastern Afghanistan. Reporter Kathy Gannon was also wounded in the attack.
Anja Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed instantly, according to an AP Television freelancer who witnessed the shooting.
According to AP, the two were traveling in a convoy of election workers delivering ballots from the center of Khost city, when a unit commander named Naqibullah walked up to the car and opened fire on them in the back seat with his AK-47.
The attack comes on the eve of the April 5 presidential elections Islamist insurgency groups claim is a "Western-backed sham".
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