Heavy rainfall and dust in the northern town of Shimla in Himachal Pradesh state.: photo by AFP/Getty Images, 3 May 2018

Super storms in India this week killed 143 people. 40,000 lightning strikes were recorded in the south while deadly dust storms hit the north. Officials warn the death toll could rise and more extreme weather is expected.: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 3 May 2018

SYRIA - Children swim in the dam of the city of Daraa after recent heavy rainfalls Photo @AbazidMohamad #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2018

A firefighter works to extinguish burning old tires at a recycling center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Photo Jose Luis Gonzalez: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 May 2018

Indian men pour water over their horse to cool it down on a hot summer day in Chennai Photo @ArunsankarKrish #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2018

A border patrol agent apprehends a woman and a man after they were caught illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico near McAllen, Texas Photo @adreeslatif: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 May 2018

Two years after a sea passage used in a mass migration wave from Turkey to Greece's islands was effectively sealed, more and more refugees are crossing the Evros river border splitting the two countries photo @alkiskon: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 May 2018

Yemeni mothers are holding the line between hunger caused by war and outright famine. But that line is growing thinner.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 3 May 2018

Yemeni mothers are holding the line between hunger caused by war and outright famine. But that line is growing thinner.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 3 May 2018

Yemeni mothers are holding the line between hunger caused by war and outright famine. But that line is growing thinner.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 3 May 2018

Yemeni mothers are holding the line between hunger caused by war and outright famine. But that line is growing thinner.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 3 May 2018

GAZA CITY - Funeral of a 19-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli soldiers during protests and clashes along the Gaza border last week who died from his wounds @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2018

JERUSALEM - An Ultra-Orthodox Jew dances around a bonfire in Jerusalem's Ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighbourhood during celebrations for the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOme @menahemkahana #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2018

SYRIA - A man flashes the sign for victory out of the window of a bus as Syrian rebels and civilians are evacuated from the town of Yalda on the southern outskirts of Damascus Photo Rami al Sayed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2018

#China - Two women take a photo as they sit on a bench featuring a US flag outside a store in Beijing Photo Wang Zhao #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2018

A child wearing a mask walks past audio speakers in the shape of dogs displayed at a shopping district today in Beijing. | Photo Ng Han Guan: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 3 May 2018

Aftermath of this morning's second Kabul blast, the one aimed at journalists and emergency workers, photographed by Omar Sobhani/Reuters: image via Tristan McConnell @tmcconnell, 29 April 2018

Witnessing blast in Kabul: 'You can still see the smoke in the pictures': Omar Sobhani and James McKenzie, Reuters, 1 May 2018

KABUL (Reuters) - The pictures show journalists killed in the second of two explosions that rocked Kabul during the morning rush hour. They were taken by Reuters photographer Omar Sobhani, 10 or 15 seconds after a suicide bomber, apparently targeting members of the media, detonated his explosives.

In one image, a cameraman from Al Jazeera can be seen kneeling wounded against the kerb, while nearby a journalist from Afghanistan’s Radio Azadi is being helped by an old man who was passing by when the blast went off.

Sobhani, who began working for Reuters as a driver and fixer in 2002 and has been a photographer since 2007, was among the journalists who had raced to cover the initial explosion on Monday morning in the Shashdarak area of central Kabul, not far from the U.S. embassy.

“I had been waiting with other journalists to cover an earlier blast. It was a normal scene. It was about 8:30 in the morning, there were security forces guarding the site of the first blast and quite a few people going to work and we were just waiting with other journalists,” he says.

“Then we heard a huge bang just behind me. I survived because I was standing in front of a concrete pillar that shielded me from the force of the explosion, but I saw all my friends and colleagues on the ground and a lot of them were dead with a few wounded - you can still see the smoke from the explosion in the pictures.”

Afghanistan’s interior ministry said the suicide bomber who detonated the second blast had posed as a media worker, showing a press card to security forces and standing among the gathered journalists before blowing himself up.

Sobhani was slightly wounded, but was able to quickly capture some images of the scene before withdrawing to seek help.

“I was shocked but I could see there was nothing to be done and I shot some pictures immediately before leaving,” he said. “I could feel some pain and there was some shrapnel in my shoulder, which was taken out at the hospital.”

Eight of the journalists were from Afghan outlets: two reporters from the Mashal TV, a cameraman and a reporter working for 1TV, three reporters from Radio Azadi and one from Tolo News, according to the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee.

The French news agency Agence France-Presse said its chief photographer in Afghanistan, Shah Marai, was killed.

Afghan security forces are seen at the site of a second blast in Kabul, Afghanistan April 30, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani - RC19C7812B10

Afghan security forces are seen at the site of a second blast in Kabul, Afghanistan April 30, 2018.: photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters, 30 April 2018

There is another art of which all have felt the want, though Themistocles only confessed it. We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as

from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful; and it may be doubted whether we should be more benefited by the art of memory or the art of forgetfulness.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive; if that pain which never can

end in pleasure could be driven totally away, that the mind might perform its functions without incumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

Samuel Johnson: IdlerNo. 72, Saturday, September 1, 1759

#WorldPressFreedomDay Pakistani journalists carry pictures of slain AFP chief photographer for Afghanistan Shah Marai during a rally in Islamabad Photo Aamir Qureshi/AFP: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 3 May 2018

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