A Japanese journalist was injured when unidentified gunmen attacked him in northwestern Pakistan on Friday.
The News Network International (NNI) news agency quoted police sources as saying that the Japanese journalist, belonging to the Asahi newspaper, was going to the Khyber tribal agency to interview a militant leader when he came under attack in Peshawar, capital city of North West Frontier Province.
Yatsukura Motoki, bureau chief of the paper in Islamabad, received a bullet and was first admitted to a local hospital in Peshawar and later shifted to Islamabad, the NNI reported.
Sami Yousafzai, an Afghan journalist based in Pakistan, who was with the Japanese journalist, was also injured in the firing at Hayatabad neighborhood in Peshawar and was admitted to a local hospital.
He is said to have received two bullets, one in the chest.
Source: Xinhua
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