A wounded Japanese journalist is carried into a hospital in Islamabad Nov. 14, 2008. A Japanese journalist and an Afghan colleague were shot and wounded on Friday in Peshawar, in the latest of a series of attacks on foreigners in the northwest Pakistani city, police said.
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.
A wounded Japanese journalist lies in an ambulance outside a hospital in Islamabad Nov. 14, 2008
Japanese journalist injured in NW Pakistan
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