Taliban fighters searching for a Deutsche Welle journalist in Afghanistan shot dead a member of his family and seriously injured another, Germany's international public broadcaster reported.
Deutsche Welle said that other relatives of the journalist were able to escape and are on the run. The Deutsche Welle journalist the fighters were hunting now works in Germany.
Many news organizations have been scrambling to get staffers and their families out of Afghanistan after Kabul was captured by Taliban fighters on Sunday after a rapid advance across the country. Washington Post Publisher Fred Ryan emailed White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday with an"urgent request" on behalf of his paper, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal for the US military to help evacuate"204 journalists, support staff and families.
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