Ulf Stroemberg, 42 years old, was wounded fatally shot during a break-in of the house he was staying at. He succumbed to his wounds a little after the attack, indicated a spokesman of TV4 to the AFP. Several other journalists were in the house at the time of the burgulary. None was injured. This murder brings to eight the number of journalists killed in Afghanistan since October 7, the beginning of American airstrikes to destroy the network of Al-Qaïda and Ben Laden, suspected of having planned the September 11 attacks in the United States.
November 11, two French radio journalists, Johanne Sutton and Pierre Billaud, and a German photographer, Volker Handloik, were killed by the Taliban in an ambush of the convoy of the Northern Alliance they were with, travelling to 30 km north-east of Taloqan.
Eight days later, November 19, the Italian Maria Grazia Cutuli, correspondant for Corriere della Will be(??), the Spaniard Julio Fuentes, special correspondent of El Mundo, the Australian cameraman Harry Burton and the Afghan photographer Azizullah Haidari, both employees at Reuters, were on the road between Jalalabad and Kabul when they were ordered by armed men to leave their vehicle. They were shot dead when they attempted to turn around and flee.
This is my best-guess translation into readable English. It may or may not be correct.
Well media, you got what you wanted, how do you like it?