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Afghanistan: Emergency, news of Taliban blitzes in activists' homes

2021-08-20T11:14:35.013Z


'They are looking for weapons and documents to discredit them, there is no confirmation'. The relative of a German journalist was killed (ANSA)


"We have

unofficial

reports

of Taliban entering the homes of former activists

, artists and people who had sided with the Taliban regime in the past. The Taliban would enter private homes

to search for weapons and documents

, which can ruin their reputation in the city." .

Thus in a briefing with the press Alberto Zanin, medical coordinator of the Emergency Center for war wounded in the Afghan capital, who specifies that "there are only rumors about this, we have no direct news".

"Yesterday

new gunshot wounds arrived from Kabul airport

, five or six people in all. The clashes at the airport - said Zanin - are a reality that is still alive and present: it is the only place where it continues to exist. chaos and tension.

There is talk of ten thousand people trying to take evacuation flights

". "The injured patients arriving from the airport to our hospital don't want to talk about what happened to them."

Taliban kill German journalist relative

- Taliban looking for a journalist working for Deutsche Welle (Dw) in Afghanistan shot killing one member of his family and seriously injuring another, German radio reported on its website this morning. The identity of the journalist in question, who now resides in Germany, has not been specified. Several other members of his family managed to escape in extremis as the Taliban went from door to door to look for him. "The murder of a relative of one of our editors yesterday by the Taliban is incredibly tragic and shows the great danger in which all our employees and their families are in Afghanistan," commented Peter Limbourg, Director General of DW . 

A German citizen was shot in Kabul on his

way to the airport to try to leave the country, but he is not in danger of life and will soon be evacuated. This was stated by Ulrike Demmer, spokesman for the German government, at a press conference in Berlin. 


Source: ansa

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