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| Journalist Khalil Jibran gunned down in KP's Landi Kotal |
| 2024-06-20 |
| [GEO.TV] A senior journalist Khalil Jibran has been killed by unidentified button men near his residence in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Landi Kotal town, police said Wednesday. Jibran, who was associated with a private news channel — Khyber News — was targeted by unidentified miscreants on a cycle of violence when he was heading towards his residence with his friend Sajjad Advocate, District Police Officer (DPO) Khyber Salim Abbas said. He detailed that the journalist’s car developed a fault near his home when the button men surrounded him, dragged him out of his vehicle and shot up him. Jibran, who was also former president of the Landi Kotal Press Club, went titzup and Sajjad got maimed, while the culprits fled from the scene. His body was shifted to a Landi Kotal hospital for post mortem, the police officer said. The incident took place in Mazreena area in the vicinity of Landi Kotal Police Station, he added. |
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