Afghan radio presenter Abdul Hamid Hotaki has died from injuries in an explosion near the election campaign headquarters of President Ashraf Ghani in the city of Kandahar.

Hotaki had worked for Hewad Radio for five years, and sustained heavy wounds in the blast on Tuesday. He succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday.

Three more people were killed and seven injured in the attack, which comes just days before a presidential election on September 28.

“Hotaki is the seventh journalist to be killed in #Afghanistan in 2019,” the Afghanistan Journalists Center said in a tweet.

There are 96 TV channels, 65 radio stations and 911 print media agencies in Kabul, as well as 107 TV channels, 284 radio stations, and 416 print media agencies in other provinces. 

According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), 2018 was the deadliest year for Afghan journalists since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, with 15 journalists and media workers killed in a series of bombings that began early in the year, nine of them in a single day.