2397 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 1 May 2018 | PHILIPPINES Edmund Sestoso | Radio | Male | Shooting |
| 30 April 2018 | AFGHANISTAN Salim Talash | Multiple | Male | Explosion |
| 30 April 2018 | AFGHANISTAN Ali Salimi | Multiple | Male | Explosion |
| 30 April 2018 | AFGHANISTAN Nowruz Ali | Multiple | Male | Explosion |
| 30 April 2018 | AFGHANISTAN Mahram Durrani | Radio | Female | Explosion |
| 30 April 2018 | AFGHANISTAN Ebadullah Hananzai | Multiple | Male | Explosion |
| 30 April 2018 | AFGHANISTAN Yar Mohammad Tokhi | Multiple | Male | Explosion |
| 30 April 2018 | AFGHANISTAN Ghazi Rasouli | Multiple | Male | Explosion |
| 30 April 2018 | AFGHANISTAN Shah Marai | Multiple | Male | Explosion |
| 30 April 2018 | AFGHANISTAN Ahmad Shah | Television | Male | Shooting |
Killing the Messenger is INSI’s annual report of journalism casualties from around the world. The statistics are compiled by monitoring press reports of journalists, media workers and citizen journalists killed as a result of their job which are then checked and verified by the Cardiff School of Journalism.
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