A man dressed as a policeman shot two foreign journalists in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing one and critically wounding the other, police, a doctor and a local official said.<br /><br />The two were in a remote small town on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan when the incident took place. <br /><br />According to the German press agency DPA, they were two AP journalists: Anja Niedringhaus, a German photojournalist and Kathy Gannon, a Canadian journalist.<br /><br />Anja Niedringhaus has been killed and Kathy Gannon is in a stable condition after being shot in the hand.<br /><br />AP has confirmed the information.<br /><br />Having lunch with my friend Nancy Dupree in Kabul taken by my friend NiedringhausAP Nancy and her work is inspiring pic.twitter.com/x6rwIoPDZm— Kathy Gannon (Kathygannon) 1 Avril 2014<br /><br />A spokesman for the governor of Khost province suggested that the assailant was actually a policeman.<br /><br />The attack took place on the eve of a presidential election that Taliban insurgents have pledged to disrupt through a campaign of bombings and assassinations.<br /><br />“Naqibullah, a policeman in Tani district of Khost, opened fire on two foreign journalists.” Mobariz Zadran told Reuters.<br /><br />Last month, a prominent Afghan journalist with the Agence France-Presse news agency was killed alongside eight other people when Taliban gunmen opened fire inside a heavily fortified luxury hotel in the centre of the capital, Kabul. <br /><br />Reuters / DPA
