A security officer was killed in a gun attack on Sunday night against the largest private television channel in Albania, top channelreported the police.

The man, 60 years old, died due to being shot by an AK-47 weapon from a moving vehicle. The attack took place at 1 a.m., 11 p.m. Sunday.

“Some individuals, that have not yet been identifiedfired salvos from an automatic weapon in the direction of Top Channel headquarters,” police said in a statement.

The security guard sat in a glass cubicle outside the building and was hit by shotsaccurate.

The police did not provide any information about the reason for the attack at this time and limited themselves to saying that “the investigation is ongoing”.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama denounced a “criminal attack” and expressed his “solidarity” with the employees of the television channel.