THREE FEMALE JOURNALISTS WERE SHOT DEAD IN JALALABAD OF AFGHANISTAN

Reports from Afghan say three women who worked for a TV station in the Afghan city of Jalalabad have been shot dead, in what seems to be the latest in a wave of targeted killings

Further reports say the women aged 18 to 20 years were killed in two separate but co-ordinate attacks the forth critically hurt

Police say they arrested the lead gunman linking him to the Taliban.

The group however denied any involvement

A wave of killings has recently rocked the country with journalists, activists and other political figures being targeted.

The three women killed has recently finished high school and worked in the dubbing department of the privately owned Enikas TV station in Afghanistan