The disappeared journalist

Sunday June 4, 2017

Habib Hussainzada, a cameraman of Press TV, an English speaking Iranian state TV station has been missing since the incident on Wednesday. 

Press TV officials in Kabul say that Hussainzada was using his daily route to office which passes through the site of Wednesday incident. 

Hussainzada’s family members have stated that he left home for office on eight o’clock Wednesday morning; but they haven’t heard of him since the incident. 

During the incident on last Wednesday, along tens of martyrs and wounded, a number of other casualties have also been missing and according to their relatives, they haven’t been able to find them among other martyrs and wounded. 

Haji Hussain, the editor in chief of Press TV in Kabul, has said: “after five days, there’s still no trace of our missing cameraman.” 

It has been suggested that as a result of the intensity of the explosion, those who had been close to the site of explosion have been vanished without leaving a trace.

In addition to the disappearance of Habib Hussainzada, two media workers were also martyred and ten other journalists and media workers were wounded on Wednesday incident.