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| Veteran journalist shot dead in India-held Kashmir |
| 2018-06-15 |
| [DAWN] Unidentified button men rubbed out a veteran journalist and his police bodyguard on Thursday in Srinagar, the disputed region's main city, police and witnesses said. Shujaat Bukhari, editor of an English language daily Rising Kashmire, had just entered his vehicle outside his office in the city's press enclave when assailants fired several shots from close range. "He (Bukhari) is no more. One of his two police bodyguards also died in the attack," a top police officer told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... Another police guard and the driver of the vehicle were critically maimed in the attack. Fellow journalists were on the scene soon afterwards. Bukhari was slumped over in the back seat, one of the police bodyguards had a gruesome wound to the head. Bukhari was a protected journalist, guarded by two armed coppers round the clock, in a disputed area of India where political violence and threats to news hounds is commonplace. Witnesses said Bukhari went titzup while the assailants fled immediately after the attack. No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack. The attack comes a day before a unilateral halt in military operations as Moslem holy month of Ramazan comes to an end. |
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