SUKKUR: Unknown armed men shot dead a former president of Garhi Khero press club who worked for a private TV channel in Syed Altaf Shah village near Garhi Khero in Jacobabad district on Thursday.

Witnesses said the armed men knocked at the door Syed Muhammad Shah`s house, when he appeared in the door they sprayed him with bullets and managed to escape.

Bereaved family members, friends and colleagues brought the body of the journalist to Garhi Khero taluka hospital, which was handed back to heirs after completion of medico-legal formalities.

Jacobabad SSP Saddam Hussain Khaskheli told journalists that the assailants had been identified as members of Umrani tribe. He had formed a number of police teams and tasked them to arrest the killers and bring them to justice, he said.

Sources said that police had neither filed a case nor arrested any suspect yet.

CM orders probe Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah condemned the journalist`s murder and expressed his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family. He ordered a transparent and impartial probe into the murder and directed officials concerned to bring the killers to justice.