A candidate is shot as Afghan vote draws near

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: September 16, 2005 | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

09-16-2005

A woman election candidate was shot and wounded in the eastern province of Nuristan, and two of her supporters were kidnapped, in an attack just days ahead of the national elections on Sunday, local officials said. The candidate, Hawa Alam Nuristani, a news presenter on the state-run Afghan Television and Radio in Kabul, was traveling by car to a campaign meeting in her native province of Nuristan on Wednesday morning when the att...

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