International News Safety Institute

07 October 2006

Christian Struwe

Incident

Karen Fischer and Christian Struwe

Cause of death

Shooting

Details

Karen Fischer, 30, and Christian Struwe, 38, worked for international broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

The pair were shot in the early hours of Saturday while en route from Baghlan province to Bamiyan province in the north of the country. They were killed in their tent, and were apparently in Afghanistan working on a documentary. They were shot dead with AK-47s.

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