Another journalist gunned down in Pak

The group announced that Gul was killed following his abduction by unidentified men while returning home.

A Pakistani journalist was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the restive southwest Balochistan province,the fourth journalist to be killed in as many months in the country ranked by UNESCO as the second most dangerous in the world for reporters.

The body of Razzaq Gul was found on Saturday morning in Turbat,a town in Balochistan,his brother said. Gul had been working for the Express Group of publications,one of the leading media houses in Pakistan. He was associated with the group for 10 years.

The group announced that Gul was killed following his abduction by unidentified men while returning home. Police found Guls body near a hospital. No group claimed responsibility for the killing. Police officials said they were trying to ascertain the motive for the murder.

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Guls family said he had no enmity with anyone. His brother said the reporter had not received any threat. Doctors said Gul was shot three times and that his brother had identified the body in hospital.

Gul was murdered more than a week after Auranzeb Tunio,a reporter working for local KTN channel,was gunned down by unidentified men along with his brother and a friend in Sindh.