Unknown gunmen shot dead an Iraqi state-run radio presenter late Friday in a southern Baghdad district, a police source said on Saturday.

"Raed Qais al-Shammari, a broadcaster in the radio of Iraq Voice, was killed at about 10:00 p.m. (1900 GMT) in front of his house in Doura district," Captain Ahmed Abdullah told Xinhua.

Iraq Voice is part of the U.S. funded Iraqi Media Network IMN, which includes the Iraqiya television and the al-Sabah newspaper.

The attack came a day after gunmen stormed into the al-Sha' abiyah TV channel in eastern Baghdad, killing 11 employees, including the office manager of the channel Abdul-Rahim al-Nasrawi.

Al-Nasrawi, a secular Shiite, was the head of the Justice and Democratic Progress movement.

Violence rages in Iraq as sectarian killings, car bombings, roadside bombs cause dozens of Iraqi casualties daily.

Source: Xinhua