Agartala: Three staff members of a newspaper in Tripura, Dainik Ganadoot, were killed on Sunday after armed men attacked the paper's office. The three non-journalist staff members were stabbed by the unknown assailants.
According to police, the motorcycle-borne assailants barged into the office of 'Dainik Ganadoot' at the Palace Compound at about 3 pm and stabbed a proof reader and a driver on the ground floor before proceeding to the first floor where they stabbed the office manager. As it was Sunday afternoon, only a reporter was present at the newspaper office 'Gandoot Bhawan'.
He fainted on seeing the assailants stabbing the two men on the ground floor and was left unharmed. All the three men, who were knifed a number of times each, were rushed to the hospital where they were declared brought dead, the police said adding the traumatised reporter was also undergoing treatment there.
The three were identified as proof reader Sujit Bhattacharya (32), office driver Balaram Ghosh (40) and office manager Ranjit Chowdhury (60), the police said. 'Dainik Ganadoot' editor-cum proprietor Sushil Chowdhury, who lives in the same compound, said he suspected the three were stabbed due to mistaken identity and he himself might have been the target but did not know the reason behind the killings....
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