17 June 2007
Noor Ahmed Solangi
Shooting
Noor Ahmed Solangi, correspondent for the Sindhi-language newspaper, Khabroon, in Kingri, Sindh province, died in a hail of nine bullets after he was ambushed by six people on motorbikes and armed with Kalashnikovs, who shot him at point blank range as he was distributing newspapers on 17 June.
A friend of the reporter, Khan Muhammad, told Reporters Without Borders, “Solangi received death threats two days previously, from a Sindhi tribe, Junejo, which was unhappy about his reports". The journalist had written an article contesting allegations by Junejo members that a rival clan had killed some of its members in a recent clash. The journalist asserted that they had been killed by police officers.
