BERLIN – Taliban fighters have shot dead a relative of a Deutsche Welle journalist in Afghanistan, a German public broadcaster has said.
DW said on Thursday that terrorists were conducting house-to-house searches for the journalist, who now works in Germany.
Another relative was seriously injured, but others managed to escape without giving details of the incident.
DW Director General Peter Limberg condemned the killing, which he said was a threat to media persons and their families in Afghanistan.
“The killing of a close relative of one of our editors yesterday by the Taliban is unimaginably tragic, and it testifies to the grave danger in which all of our employees and their families in Afghanistan find themselves,” he said.
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“It is clear that the Taliban are already conducting an organized search for journalists in both Kabul and the provinces. we are running out of time!”
The broadcaster said the Taliban had raided the homes of at least three other DW journalists.
DW and other German media organizations have called on the German government to take swift action to help its Afghan workers.
After capturing Kabul, the Taliban began a public relations blitz, promising media freedom and pardons for all its opponents.
However, a confidential UN document seen by AFP said they were intensifying the search for people working with US and NATO forces.
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