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Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn of the fatal shooting on 22 November of Jagajit Saikia, the correspondent of the regional daily Amar Asom in Kokrajhar, in an area where separatist groups are active in the west of the state of Assam. He is the second journalist to be killed in the past week in the northeast of India.
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... km from here. He was the Kokrajhar district correspondent for mass circulation Assamese newspaper Amar Asom. Motorcycle-borne gunmen had fired six bullets at Saikia in broad daylight. He was declared dead on arrival by doctors at a hospital in Kokrajhar. Saikia is survived by his wife and a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. On Monday, police claimed to have zeroed in on the prime...
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BJP (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... km from here. He was the Kokrajhar district correspondent for mass circulation Assamese newspaper Amar Asom.Motorcycle-borne gunmen had fired six bullets at Saikia in broad daylight. He was declared dead on arrival by doctors at a hospital in Kokrajhar. Saikia is survived by his wife and a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. On Monday, police claimed to have zeroed in on the prime suspect,...
