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Reporter attacked by un identified gunmen at Nazira

Local correspondent of a television channel of Lakuwa and organising secretary of the Simaluguri Press Guild Bipin Hazarika was attacked by two unidentifyed gunmen on his way home at 9.30 p.m. on September 24. According to information, while Hazarika was on his way home by his motorcycle on Lakuwa-Rajgarh road suddenly two young men came on a blue coloured motorcycle and forced him to stop. They misbehaved and try to shoot with a pistol. Fortunately at the same time an oil tanker came and the miscreants flead away by threatining him to kill within 15 days. Hazarika filled an FIR at Simaluguri police station in this regard and investigation is going on.

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