Daesh claims responsibility for attack on media workers in eastern Afghanistan

Relatives carry the body of a woman who was killed by Daesh gunmen in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan on March 2, 2021. (AP)

• Daesh fighters targeted three female employees of a television station

Daesh claimed responsibility for an attack that killed three female media workers in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday evening.
The militant group, which has a presence in Afghanistan, said its fighters had targeted the three female employees of a television station in the eastern city of Jalalabad, according to SITE Intelligence group.
Three women who worked for Enikas TV aged between 18 and 20 had died and a fourth was critically injured after being shot on their way home from work, Afghan officials had said.