A cameraman of a prominent Pakistani news channel was shot dead by motorcycle-borne Taliban gunmen who indiscriminately fired upon a news gathering van in the country's biggest port-city here.
The Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) van of Samaa channel had gone to the North Nazimabad area of Karachi when it came under attack on Sunday from gunmen on motorcycles who fired indiscriminately on the van.
Police said that assistant cameraman Taimur received a bullet shot to the head during the attack.
"He was brought to the hospital with a single shot to the head and he died after a while," additional police surgeon, Rohina Hasan told the media.
The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack. TTP spokesperson Mohammad Khorasani said in a statement, "The media is not impartial and we’ve issued several warnings to them."