Killings at Tripura

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/05/2013

Three staffers of a newspaper in Tripura, Dainik Ganadoot, were killed on Sunday after armed men attacked the paper's office. According to police, the motorcycle-borne assailants barged into the office at the Palace Compound at about 3 pm and stabbed a proof reader and a driver on the ground floor before proceeding to the first floor where they stabbed the office manager. As it was Sunday afternoon, only a reporter was present at the office. He fainted on seeing the assailants stabbing the two men on the ground floor and was left unharmed. (CNN IBN, PTI)

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