Via AFP:
Shocked colleagues of Sardar Ahmad, the senior reporter in AFP's Kabul bureau, Friday mourned the loss of a charming and talented journalist with a deep, nuanced understanding of Afghanistan's wrenching conflict.
Ahmad, 40, was shot dead along with his wife Humaira and two of their three children -- a girl and boy -- when gunmen attacked the Serena hotel in the Afghan capital on Thursday evening.
An AFP staff photographer identified the four bodies at a city hospital on Friday, and said the family's infant son was undergoing emergency treatment after suffering serious wounds.
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