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India Journalist and bodyguard gunned down in Kashmir

PROMINENT journalist Shujaat Bukhari was shot dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday evening in an attack that also killed one of his bodyguards.

Mr Bukhari, the editor of the Rising Kashmir newspaper, was leaving his office when three men approached on a motorcycle, gunning him down. He was taken to hospital but died from his injuries.

His killers remain unknown and the attack occurred just hours after he posted a tweet about a United Nations call for “a comprehensive independent international investigation” into alleged human rights abuses in Kashmir.

Thousands have been killed in decades of conflict in the Muslim-majority region with pro-independence activists waging a campaign against Indian rule since the 1980s.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said: “It is a conflict that has robbed millions of their basic human rights and continues to this day to inflict untold suffering.”

Mr Bukhari had been given round-the-clock protection, with journalists constantly threatened in the region. Nobody had claimed responsibility for the attack at the time the Star went to print.

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