Mapped: attacks on journalists in 2018

May 26, 2018 05:27 pm | Updated 05:28 pm IST

A scene after one of the double blasts rocked a Kabul area on April 30, 2018.

A scene after one of the double blasts rocked a Kabul area on April 30, 2018.

Condemnation has poured in from across the world after 10 journalists were killed in Afghanistan in what the UN described as the "deliberate targeting" of the media.

Afghanistan was already considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, with at least 20 killed last year. Globally, it was the worst attack on journalists in a single incident since 31 reporters and photographers were killed in a massacre in the southern Philippines in 2009.

Here is a look at attacks on journalists across the world in 2018:

 

(Reports sourced from agencies, including AFP, AP and IFJ)

 

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