In a shocking incident, senior journalist Gauri Lankesh, a well-known critic of the right wing forces, was shot dead at her house in Bengaluru.

Sources said Lankesh was followed by people in a car after she left her office in Basavanagudi at 7.30 pm.

When she was entering her house in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, 3-4 people attacked the scribe after which she succumbed to multiple bullet injuries.