Mogadishu — Unknown gunmen shot dead a veteran Somali journalist worked at an independent Radio and TV based in the lawless capital, Mogadishu on Saturday afternoon.

Witnesses and colleague said, two armed men have shot dead Hassan Osman Abdi known as Fantastic, the director of the independent Shabelle Radio and TV broadcast in Mogadishu Somalia, while he was returning from work to his house at Nasteeh village in Wadajir district.

The assassinated director was a veteran journalist had worked at Shabelle Media station for three years. He was a 30-years-old and a Father of three, two daughters and a son.

The scene or the district was largely controlled by Somalia's Transitional Federal government TFG.

No group has so far claimed the responsibility of the assassination of Hassan Osman Abdi fantastic, the Shabelle Media station director in Mogadishu so far.

All Shabelle Media journalists and staff have expressed shock over the killing of their lost colleague Hassan Osman Abdi Fantastic and wished him from Allah to put him his mercy and paradise.