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A journalist of a leading Axomiya daily was Saturday shot dead by miscreants in Lower Assam's Kokrajhar district. Jagajit Saikia (35), the Kokrajhar district local correspondent of the Guwahati-based daily Amar Asom, was shot at near a pharmacy in the heart of Kokrajhar town, official sources said. The gunmen fired six rounds, they said. Saikia was immediately rushed to the Rupnath Brahma Civil...

Newspapers in Manipur will suspended publication from Thursday for an indefinite period in protest against the killing of a young trainee journalist by unidentified gunmen in state capital Imphal on Monday. Konsam Rishikanta Singh, 22, a trainee sub-editor with the Imphal Free Press was shot dead at Langol area in Imphal West. His bullet-riddled body was recovered by the police from a deserted...

A Filipino broadcast journalist was killed Monday in the southern Philippines, news reports said quoting police sources. Aresio Padrigao, a commentator for local radio station DXRS, was shot dead by gunmen aboard a motorcycle in Gingoog town in Misamis Oriental province, 795 km south of Manila. Padrigao is the fourth journalist to be killed in the Philippines this year. Last year, four journalists...

Veteran Mexican crime reporter Armando Rodríguez was shot to death Thursday morning while in his car in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. An unidentified assailant shot Rodríguez, 40, a reporter for the local daily El Diario, at least eight times with a 9mm weapon, according to Mexican news reports and CPJ interviews. Rodríguez was sitting...

Pakistani security forces allegedly killed Qari Muhammad Shoib, a Mingora-based print journalist on Saturday night when he was driving in his car at Nishat Chowk of Mingora city in the restive Swat Valley of North West Pakistan. Qari Shoib, 32, was a dynamic journalist who regularly reported on the conflict between Taliban militants and Pakistan security forces for daily Azadi and PPA news Agency...

A car bomb killed Ivo Pukanic, a prominent Croatian journalist, and a colleague in downtown Zagreb on Thursday. State-run Croatian TV showed footage of Pukanic's burned out Lexus and two covered bodies outside his NCL Media Group office in the capital. The police identified the victims as Pukanic and his group's marketing director, Niko Franjic. They published the Zagreb-based political weekly...

Nigerian journalist Eiphraim Audu was shot dead by six unknown gunmen near his home on Wednesday in Lafia, central Nigeria, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ0 has reported quoting local journalists and the Nigerian Union of Journalists. Audu was a senior radio journalist with the Nasarawa State Broadcasting Service and the chairman of the credential committee of the forthcoming Nigeria...

Miguel Angel Villa Gómez Valle, editor of Noticias de Michoacán, a daily newspaper based in Lázaro Cárdenas, in the southwestern Mexican state of Michoacán was abducted and killed last week, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Villa Gómez’s bullet-riddled body was found October 10 morning in a refuse dump, less than 12 hours after he went missing. “The list of kidnappings and execution...

A journalist working with Headlines Today news channel was shot dead in her car near her southwest Delhi home while returning from work in the early hours Tuesday. Soumya Viswanathan, 27, was found dead in her white Maruti Zen car on Nelson Mandela Marg in South Delhi's Vasant Kunj area around 3.30 a.m, police said. Her car was found rammed against the road divider and she was seated in the driver...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has welcomed the arrest of suspects in the killing of three journalists and a media worker in Mosul. CNN reported that two suspects have been arrested in Mosul, according to Gen Jalal Tawfeeq, military operations commander of Nineveh province, who spoke to al-Sharqiya. According to Reuters, Brig-Gen Khalid Abdul Sattar, the spokesman for Iraqi military...