Tolo TV Reporter Was Not Killed by Taliban

Hind Khoudary

News

22nd August 2021

Tolo TV Reporter Was Not Killed by Taliban

Zermina Mohammadi refuted death claims (Twitter).

The Claim

The Taliban killed a Tolo TV reporter on Friday.

News posted on

samuelkermashani1

Maasoum

المستشار . ندا العويـد

Mohammad Mohadesse

Abu Jaafar

Emerging story

Social media users have been circulating news in different languages alleging a female anchor in the Afghan Tolo TV channel was killed by the Taliban on Friday. Users also posted a photo of the broadcaster, Zermina Mohammadi accompanying the claim.

Tolo TV #Afghanistan reporter was killed by gunmen on Friday
Taliban terrorists kill Lu'a journalist#The Taliban claimed responsibility for his death pic.twitter.com/IXgHmpd9l9
— samuelkermashani1 (@samuelkermashan) August 21, 2021

#أفغانستان #طالبان
قتل مراسلة قناة تولو الأفغانية صباح اليوم على يد جنود الإمارة الشيطانية وطالبان تعلن مسؤوليتها#Afganistan #Talibans #Alparslan pic.twitter.com/8NRWXDb4lv
— المستشار . ندا العويـد (@q8_kuvvait_q8) August 21, 2021

Misbar’s Analysis

MENA: Zermina Mohammadi, a Tolo TV news anchor, denied the claims on her official account on Facebook. She posted that she is fine and all the circulating claim is baseless.

Also, Tolo TV News official accounts did not report any news about their anchor's assassination.

On August 19, the channel's website published a story about the Taliban preventing two journalists from workIng.

The claim started circulating after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and its entry into the capital, Kabul, on August 15, following the withdrawal of US forces.