A Japanese journalist and an Afghan colleague were shot and wounded in Peshawar, in the latest of a series of attacks on foreigners in the northwest Pakistani city, police said. The shooting comes a day after an Iranian diplomat was kidnapped and his police bodyguard shot dead in the city, while an American aid worker was gunned down on Wednesday. "A car chased these journalists and fired at them in Hayatabad," Superintendent Abdul Qadir said, referring to the same neighbourhood where the American was killed. The journalists had been seeking an interview with a militant commander in the wake of the spike in violence in Peshawar, according to another police officer, Banaras Khan.
The Afghan reporter, who sometimes works with Western media, was hit in the chest and hand, according to a journalist who saw him in hospital. The same journalist had no information on the extent of the Japanese reporter's injuries.