( CNN ) -- The director of a Somali radio station was shot dead and a colleague seriously injured in the capital , Mogadishu , on Sunday , according to a local journalist and a Somali journalists ' organization . Colleagues carry the body of Somalia 's Shabelle radio network 's director , Mukhtar Mohammad Hirabe , on Sunday . The assassination of Mukhtar Mohammad Hirabe of Shabelle Media follows last week 's abduction of a station director for TV Universal . Hirabe was shot in the head , the journalist said . His colleague Ahmed Omar Tajir was hospitalized . Two men with pistols attacked the two men as they were talking together , said a statement from the National Union of Somali Journalists . Hirabe , 48 , director of Radio Shabelle , was shot in the head five times , and Tajir -- identified in the statement as Ahmed Omar Hashi , 47 , Radio Shabelle 's news editor -- was shot twice in the stomach . Five journalists have been killed in the east African nation this year , including three from Shabelle , the group said . The incidents have left the media community reeling in the east African nation , which has not had an effective government since 1991 . The union 's statement condemned the violence , with its secretary general , Omar Faruk Osman , saying Hirabe 's death was `` premeditated and targeted . ... Colleagues who are committed to do their job in this extreme situation need to be protected . '' Another journalist , Nur Muse Hussein , 56 , died last month after being shot in April , the organization said . CNN regularly works with Somali journalists who are employed by Shabelle Media . Journalist Mohamed Amiin Adow contributed to this report .
BBC station director Mukhtar Mohammad ##i was shot five times in the head . His BBC colleague was shot twice in the back as he walked with Hirabe . Three journalists have been killed in Somalia in the past year ; all from the BBC .