Mogadishu, QN - Reports from Galkaio town in central Somalia confirmed that gunmen killed Sunday evening TV reporter Liban Abdulahi Farah aka Liban Qaran who was working for Kalsan TV channel.
Witnesses confirmed that the reporter was on call arguing with the potential killers before they started shooting at him with pistols.
"The reporter was shouting, telling someone on his phone that he will die only his time" said witness Ismail Nur Maslah, who witnessed the killing.
"He was coming from the the northernside of the city where Puntland administration rules and he was coming to the southern part of the city, which Galmudug administration controls, and he was killed in Garsor area" he added.
Maslah told Qalin News Online that the two men armed with pistols shot the report at least 5 times and left him dead.
Kalsan TV confirmed the killing of their reporter in Galkaio but were not ready for more comments.
The Galmudug administration police surrounded the area and started searching the killiers who escaped the place after the killing.
Bystanders rushed the reporter to a hospital controls by Medicines Sans Frontiers-MSF, but he was pronounced dead up on submitions, medical officials confirmed.
A nurse in the hospital confirmed Qalin News Online that the reporter was already dead when he was brought to the hospital.
Liban Qaran becomes 5th Somali Journalists killed this year in Somalia, and the third assasinated, while 18 journalists were killed in Somalia last year.
No one was prosecuted yet for the targeting of the journalists in Somalia.
More details will follow later.
Contact Qalin: news@qalin.net
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Somalia: armed men kill TV reporter in Galkaio
Mogadishu, QN - Reports from Galkaio town in central Somalia confirmed that gunmen killed Sunday evening TV reporter Liban Abdulahi Farah aka Liban Qaran who was working for Kalsan TV channel.