18 April 2010
Azmat Ali Bangash
Explosion
Reporter Azmat Ali Bangash became the second Samaa TV journalist to be killed by a suicide bomber in past 48 hours.
Bangash was doing a report in a camp for displaced Shiite villagers near the Afghan border, 65 km from Peshawar, when two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the place where families had gathered to be registered, killing 41 people including Bangash and injuring around 60 others. The bombings, which were claimed by a Sunni jihadist group, Al Laskhar-e-Jahngvi, were targeted at Shiites who have been forced to flee the fierce fighting in the Orakzai region resulting from an army offensive against the Taliban.
Samaa TV cameraman Malik Arif was killed and five journalists were wounded by a suicide bombing at a Quetta hospital the day before that left a total of eight dead. The journalists had gone to the hospital to cover a Shiite demonstration in support of a Shiite businessman who had been the target of a murder attempt.
