GHOTKI: Police in Sindh’s Ghotki district reported to News on Tuesday that a local journalist had been shot and killed.
The murder of journalist Bachal Ghunio has been attributed by the villagers to dacoits.
The deceased had gone to his fields, according to the authorities, when he was attacked. The journalist’s body has been moved to the Taluka head quarters at Ubuaro hospital, and inquiries are still being conducted, they continued.
His family staged a protest outside the senior superintendent of police’s Mirpur Mathelo office in response to Ghunio’s death, calling for the suspects to be taken into custody.
As the ninth journalist to be slain in 2024, Ghunio’s murder follows a noticeable upsurge in violence against journalists in the nation in recent years.
