Africa-Press – Uganda. Police in Masindi District are investigating circumstances under which a journalist attached to Kings Broadcasting Services {Kings FM 93.6} was shot and killed in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
Preliminary investigations indicate Gerald Aseera, a news anchor at the station, was shot in the chest at around 12am by a private security guard at a soda depot in Masindi town.
“Aseera was shot dead last night by a private security guard. He was just moving in town and the guard suspected him of being a thief. He shot him in the chest,’’ a colleague at the radio station who asked not to be named in this story told this reporter.
The journalist died moments after being rushed to Masindi General Hospital.
His body is still at the hospital mortuary as police investigate the shooting.
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