Attack on newspaper office in Tripura kills 3

Agartala  : Three employees of a Bengali daily newspaper including a manager were killed by two unidentified assailants at their office in Agartala.

The incident happened when two assailants stormed into the office of Dainik Ganadoot, and stabbed to death the 32 year old proof reader, Sujit Bhattacharjee, and seriously injured manager Ranjit Chowdhury, and driver Balaram Ghosh, both of whom died on way to hospital.

The editor-cum-proprietor of “Dainik Ganadoot”, Sushil Chowdhury, who resides in the same building, said that the assailants intended target was him but due to a case of mistaken identity they attacked the manager.