Unknown gunmen in Kirkuk kill radio station manager
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The manager of a local radio in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk was killed by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday, a police official said.
“This afternoon, Mohammed Sabt Shahata, manager of the Baba Gurgur Radio, was shot dead in the Urooba neighborhood of Kirkuk,” Razwan Shukur, a Kirkuk police official, told Rudaw.
“The killers fled in a Toyota Corolla without license plates,” he said, adding that their whereabouts remained unknown and that an investigation was underway.
Before becoming manager of the radio station, which belongs to the Iraqiya Media Network, Shahata was a TV news anchor for the network.
In late October, during clashes between ISIS militants and security forces in Kirkuk, the head of news gathering at Turkmeneli TV was killed by sniper fire
“This afternoon, Mohammed Sabt Shahata, manager of the Baba Gurgur Radio, was shot dead in the Urooba neighborhood of Kirkuk,” Razwan Shukur, a Kirkuk police official, told Rudaw.
“The killers fled in a Toyota Corolla without license plates,” he said, adding that their whereabouts remained unknown and that an investigation was underway.
Before becoming manager of the radio station, which belongs to the Iraqiya Media Network, Shahata was a TV news anchor for the network.
In late October, during clashes between ISIS militants and security forces in Kirkuk, the head of news gathering at Turkmeneli TV was killed by sniper fire