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Press TV Photographer Killed In Bombing Buried Tuesday

Habibullah Hussain Zada, an Afghan photographer and video editor working for Iran’s Press TV, was buried on Tuesday after being killed in Wednesday’s truck bombing in Kabul city.

Zada’s family had searched for him since the bombing but were only handed his body on Monday.  

The victim had worked for Press TV in Kabul for four years but had also been studying international relations at a private university and was due to graduate this year.

Zada had been on his way to work on Wednesday morning when a truck bomb was detonated in Wazir Akbar Khan, killing over 150 people.

According to Zada’s brother, his body had been so badly mutilated in the explosion that identifying him had been difficult.

“Due to the lack of resources in identifying bodies, we could not identify his body sooner. Finally on Monday the National Directorate of Security employees brought us some things of his, including his wallet that contained his cards, and it helped us identify Habibullah’s body,” said Rahmatullah Hussain Zada, Habibullah Hussain Zada’s brother.

“As we saw Habibullah’s body, it showed that he was near the bombing, because his body was damaged badly and was unidentifiable,” Press TV’s senior journalist in Kabul, Mohammad Amin Alemi said.

There are still a number of families who have not yet been handed the remains of their loved ones who are thought to have been killed in the explosion. Among those missing are policemen, guards, motorists and others.

Press TV Photographer Killed In Bombing Buried Tuesday

An Afghan media worker killed in Wednesday’s truck bombing was buried on Tuesday, as it took six days to identify him

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Habibullah Hussain Zada, an Afghan photographer and video editor working for Iran’s Press TV, was buried on Tuesday after being killed in Wednesday’s truck bombing in Kabul city.

Zada’s family had searched for him since the bombing but were only handed his body on Monday.  

The victim had worked for Press TV in Kabul for four years but had also been studying international relations at a private university and was due to graduate this year.

Zada had been on his way to work on Wednesday morning when a truck bomb was detonated in Wazir Akbar Khan, killing over 150 people.

According to Zada’s brother, his body had been so badly mutilated in the explosion that identifying him had been difficult.

“Due to the lack of resources in identifying bodies, we could not identify his body sooner. Finally on Monday the National Directorate of Security employees brought us some things of his, including his wallet that contained his cards, and it helped us identify Habibullah’s body,” said Rahmatullah Hussain Zada, Habibullah Hussain Zada’s brother.

“As we saw Habibullah’s body, it showed that he was near the bombing, because his body was damaged badly and was unidentifiable,” Press TV’s senior journalist in Kabul, Mohammad Amin Alemi said.

There are still a number of families who have not yet been handed the remains of their loved ones who are thought to have been killed in the explosion. Among those missing are policemen, guards, motorists and others.

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