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A reporter from a newspaper in Sri Lanka has been shot by a group of unidentified men at his home on the outskirts of the capital Colombo. A reporter from a newspaper in Sri Lanka has been shot by a group of unidentified men at his home near the capital, Colombo.
Sunday Leader journalist Faraz Shauketaly was rushed to hospital after being shot in the neck. Sunday Leader's Faraz Shauketaly, who holds dual British and Sri Lankan citizenship, was rushed to hospital after being shot in the neck.
A doctor who treated Mr Shauketaly at the hospital told the BBC's Azzam Ameen in Colombo the journalist was now out of danger. A doctor who treated Mr Shauketaly said the journalist was now out of danger.
Sri Lankan police say an investigation into the shooting is under way. Rights groups say more than a dozen media employees have been killed in Sri Lanka over the past decade.
Mr Shauketaly uses his home as a guest house in Mount Lavinia; one of the residents heard his screams after the shooting late on Friday night and drove him to hospital. None of the murders has been solved.
He was transferred to the private clinic where a doctor told the BBC the bullet had been successfully removed.
Another resident of the guest-house told the BBC: "Faraz said to us in the morning that his life was in danger, we didn't see the people but I guess they may have shot at him from his window."
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The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says Mr Shauketaly was on the phone to a colleague at the Sunday Leader on Friday evening at his home in Mount Lavinia when the call was cut.
Shortly afterwards he answered a call and said he had been shot in the neck by three intruders, who had then escaped.
A group of foreign lodgers at his house said he was covered in blood and calling for help.
Mr Shauketaly, 52, was taken to intensive care, where doctors pronounced him out of danger and have been working to remove a bullet.
Mr Shauketaly holds British and Sri Lankan passports and the British High Commission has voiced its concern.
Our correspondent says Mr Shauketaly had voiced fears that his investigative reporting might be putting him in danger, especially after strangers had called at his house recently asking for his whereabouts.
Four years ago, the Sunday Leader's editor, Lasantha Wickrematunge, was shot dead by a group of masked men on motorbikes.Four years ago, the Sunday Leader's editor, Lasantha Wickrematunge, was shot dead by a group of masked men on motorbikes.
The case, which has never been solved, highlighted the dismal state of press freedom in the country, analysts said.The case, which has never been solved, highlighted the dismal state of press freedom in the country, analysts said.
The investigative, anti-establishment newspaper had riled the authorities and continued to do so after his death. But last July the near-bankrupt Leader was bought by a well-connected businessman. The Sunday Leader had long had a reputation for being outspokenly anti-government.
In September the then-editor, Frederica Jansz, said he had sacked her for not toeing his political line. She then fled abroad citing fresh death threats. Its profile changed last year when it was bought by a well-connected businessman and retracted some of its articles, but it still does a considerable amount of investigative reporting.
Under a new editor, Sakunthala Perera, the paper has issued retractions of past articles and has lost some of its most outspoken columnists. Last month, Sri Lanka was placed 162nd out of 179 in a Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders.