Mogadishu — Unidentified masked gunmen have assassinated the director of the independent Shabelle Media director Hassan Osman Abdi (Fantastic) this evening at his home in Mogadishu's Wadajir district.

Reports say, two men with pistols have shot him dead director Hassan Osman Abdi several timed on the head on Saturday evening, as ha was entering in his house located in at Naxtexo village in Wadajir district in Mogadishu.

It was not immediately clear who carried out the assassination of the independent Shabelle Media director Hassan Osman Abdi so far.