A journalist working for a reputed Hindi daily was shot dead on Saturday morning in Sasaram, district headquarters of Rohtas district in Bihar. The murder takes places exactly six months after another journalist with a Hindi paper was gunned down in Siwan.
According to eyewitnesses, Dharmendra Singh, 35, working for Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, was at a tea stall outside his house in Amra Talab area in Sasaram when three motorcycle-borne men fired at him from close range. He was hit on his chest and abdomen.
He was taken to Sadar Hospital in Sasaram where doctors referred him to Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. But the journalist succumbed to his injuries on his way to Varanasi.