This is a list of journalists killed in Assam. Since 1987, 23 editors, correspondents and reporters were killed in Assam.
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Name |
Media |
Designation |
Base |
Killed by |
Killed at |
Year |
Image |
Punarmal Agarwala |
The Assam Tribune |
Correspondent |
Kampur Town |
ULFA |
Kampur Town |
1987 |
|
Kamala Saikia |
Ajir Asom |
Local Correspondent |
Sibsagar |
ULFA |
Sibsagar |
9 August 1991 |
|
Pabitra Narayan |
The North East Times |
Correspondent |
Sibsagar |
Suspected timber smugglers |
Sonari, Sibsagar |
19 August 1995 |
|
Dipak Swargiary |
|
Journalist |
Goreswar |
Unidentified miscreants |
|
24 September 1995 |
|
Manik Deuri |
|
Journalist |
Goreswar |
BLT |
Diphu |
26 April 1996 |
|
Parag Kumar Das[1] |
Asomiya Pratidin |
Executive Editor |
Guwahati |
SULFA |
Guwahati |
17 May 1996 |
|
Panja Ali |
|
Local journalist |
|
Unidentified miscreants |
Kasugaon, Kokrajhar |
1997 |
|
Nurul Hoque |
|
Local journalist |
|
Suspected mafia |
Hojai, Nagaon |
1998 |
|
Alfarid Shazad |
|
Photographer |
|
Grenade explosion |
Inside Sivasagar SP's office |
1999 |
|
Jiten Sutiya |
|
Journalist |
|
Grenade explosion |
Inside Sivasagar SP's office |
1999 |
|
Ratneswar Sarma Shastri |
|
Senior journalist |
|
ULFA |
Barpeta |
31 December 1999 |
|
Dinesh Brahma |
|
Journalist |
|
Assassin |
Dhubri |
24 March 2003 |
|
Indramohan Hakasama |
Amar Asom |
Local correspondent |
|
|
Agia, Goalpara |
2003 |
|
Prahlad Gowala |
Asomiya Khabar |
Correspondent |
|
|
Golaghat |
6 January 2005 |
|
Kanak Raj Medhi |
|
Journalist |
Sualkuchi |
Died under mysterious circumstances |
|
29 October 2006 |
|
Mohammad Muslimuddin |
|
Journalist |
Hojai |
|
|
2007 |
|
Bodosa Narzary |
Bodoland TV |
Director |
|
Suspected former BLT and BPF youth wing members |
Bhabanipur, Kokrajhar |
1 April 2007 |
|
Jagajit Saikia |
Amar Asom |
Correspondent |
Kokrajhar |
|
Kokrajhar |
22 November 2008 |
|
Anil Mazumdar |
Aji |
Executive Editor |
|
Unidentified gunman |
Rajgarh, Guwahati |
24 March 2009 |
|
Bimala Prasad Talukdar |
Swatantra Awaj |
Editor |
|
|
Hojai |
4 September 2010 |
|
Rayhanu Naime |
Gana Chabuk,Deshbarta |
Journalist |
Dhubri |
Unidentified miscreants |
Dhubri, Dhubri |
8 September 2012 |
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