A Somali television journalist, Mohammed Ibrahim Gabow was reportedly killed in a car bombing on Monday in the country’s capital city of Mogadishu.

Mohammed Moahim Mustaf, an Editor for the TV station, Kalsan TV told reporters that Gabow had borrowed the car from a friend which  exploded after he entered the it, killing him on the spot.

“Unexpectedly it exploded and he died on the spot. We do not know who was behind it,” Mustaf said.

Gabow becomes the fourth journalist killed this year in Somalia, a country currently ranked 167th out of 180 countries for journalists’ safety. No group has ever claimed responsibility for the killing of a journalist in Mogadishu.

Somali has been plagued by violence, lawlessness and instability since  the early 1990s following the toppling of military dictator, Mohammed Siad Barre.