Gunmen in northwest Pakistan shot and killed a reporter working for the Voice of America on Tuesday near his home in Shabqadar, roughly 35 kilometers from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

Mukarram Khan Aatif, who filed reports for VOA’s Deewa Radio, was in a mosque when two assailants on motorcycles arrived during evening prayers. One of the men entered the mosque and shot Aatif in the head as he prayed before fleeing.

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