International News Safety Institute

26 March 2009

Raja Asad Hameed

Incident

Raja Asad Hameed

Cause of death

Shooting

Details

Unidentified armed men on Thursday night killed Raja Asad Hameed, senior reporter of a local English daily.

The incident took place at 10pm, when the armed men came to Hameed’s house and rang the doorbell. When he opened the door, the men shot and killed him. A large number of journalists from Islamabad and Rawalpindi rushed to the Central Hospital and took Hameed’s body to his residence.

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