Swedish Journalist Killed in Robbery in Northern Afghanistan

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Swedish Journalist Killed in Robbery in Northern Afghanistan

A Swedish television journalist was killed early Tuesday in a robbery in northern Afghanistan, colleagues and the northern alliance's foreign ministry said.

A Swedish television journalist was killed early Tuesday in a robbery in northern Afghanistan, colleagues and the northern alliance's foreign ministry said.

Colleagues identified him as Olaf Stromberg of Sweden's TV4, and said he was shot during a break-in at the house where he was staying.

He was the eighth journalist to die in Afghanistan since the start of the U.S.-led military campaign on Oct. 7.

Joris Wauman of the European Broadcasting Union, with whom Swedish TV4 was working, said gunmen broke into the house after 2 a.m., and Stromberg was shot. Colleagues rushed him to the hospital, but he died a short time later, Wauman said.

Taloqan has been the base for scores of foreign journalists covering the siege of Kunduz. The city fell to the northern alliance late Sunday after a two-week siege.

Four journalists, two from the Reuters news agency, one from the Italian daily Corriere della Sera and one from the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, were ambushed and killed last week on the road between the eastern city of Jalalabad and the capital, Kabul.

Earlier this month, two French radio journalists and a writer for a German magazine died while reporting from the front lines in northern Afghanistan.

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