Karen Fischer

Year: 2006

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Location: Baghlan, Afghanistan

Press organization: freelance

What's Karen Fischer's story?

Karen Fischer, 30, and Christian Struwe, 39, Deutsche Welle journalists doing research for a freelance documentary, were shot in a tent they had pitched along a road near Baghlan, about 95 miles (150 kilometers) northwest of Kabul. Deutsche Welle said the two had recently visited several United Nations Children’s Fund projects in northern Afghanistan and were en route to the central province of Bamiyan.

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