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Journalist killed by unknown gunmen in Pak

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Press Trust of India Peshawar
Last Updated : Jun 11 2017 | 9:02 PM IST
A senior journalist of an Urdu newspaper was today shot dead by unknown gunmen in northwest Pakistan, police said.
Bakshish Elahi, Bureau Chief of K-2 Times Haripur was shot down by the gunmen who came in a bike near his home at Lora Chowk Haripur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
They fled the scene after committing the crime.
The assassins fired five shots on his body including one on his head and four on his chest and belly.
The dead body of the slain journalist was shifted to women and children hospital Haripur for postmortem.
Soon after the incident, journalists of Haripur protested against the murder and blocked the GT road demanding arrest of the killers within a day.
President Haripur Press Club (HPC) Zakir Tanooli along with other journalists protested against the killing of Bakshish Elahi and blocked the road.

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First Published: Jun 11 2017 | 9:02 PM IST

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