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NPR Photographer, Translator Killed in Afghanistan

HeadlineJun 06, 2016

An NPR photographer and Afghan interpreter have been killed in Afghanistan while traveling with an Afghan army unit. Award-winning photojournalist David Gilkey died along with interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna and an Afghan soldier after their Humvee was hit by rocket-propelled grenades. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, an Afghan Parliament member was killed by a bomb near his home in the capital Kabul, while gunmen stormed a court building in the eastern province of Logar, killing seven.

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