A Leading Afghan TV Station Is Attacked in Kabul<br />In a separate episode on Tuesday, Taliban suicide bombers tried to force their way into a police training center in the Sayid Abad district of Wardak Province, in the center of the country,<br />but were repulsed by police officers guarding the site, according to Abdul Rahman Mangal, a spokesman for the governor of Wardak.<br />Wahidulllah Majrooh, a spokesman for the Afghan Health Ministry, said<br />that a total of 21 people had been wounded in the attack and hospitalized, and that two had been killed, in addition to the two attackers.<br />The attack happened during business hours, but reports said<br />that most of the roughly 150 employees of the station, Shamshad TV, had safely escaped the building in downtown Kabul, the Afghan capital.<br />7, 2017<br />KABUL, Afghanistan — Gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked one of Afghanistan’s leading<br />television stations on Tuesday morning, killing two people, Afghan officials said.<br />and who isn’t." Sediqullah Tawhidi, director of the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee, said the attack was the first on a television<br />outlet since January 2016, when the Taliban bombed a van carrying employees of Tolo Television, the country’s largest station.<br />On Monday, Rana Aqbal, an employee of the Pakistani Consulate in Jalalabad, in eastern Afghanistan, was shot<br />and killed by two gunmen on a motorcycle while shopping in the bazaar, according to Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar Province.
