Patna: Two journalists have been shot dead in Bihar and neighbouring Jharkhand in the last 24 hours.
On Friday evening, Rajdev Ranjan, a journalist with over 20 years of experience and the bureau chief of the Hindi daily Hindustan, was shot dead in Bihar’s Siwan district.
Two shots were fired at him at extremely close range near Siwan’s railway station. One bullet hit his head while the other hit his chest.
Mr Ranjan was dead by the time he was brought to the local hospital. The Bihar Police says the motive for the killing is unclear, and that he had no personal enmity with anyone, NDTV reported.
Meanwhile, in Jharkhand’s Chatra district, a journalist was shot dead by unidentified people on Thursday night. 35-year-old Akhilesh Pratap Singh worked for a local news channel, and was gunned down near the panchayat secretariat of his village.
Chief Minister Raghubar Das condemned the incident and asked Director General of Police DK Pandey to arrest the attackers at the earliest.