Editor Shujaat Bhukhari shot dead: Here’s list of journalists killed by militants in Kashmir

“Three motorcycle-borne militants came and fired at Bukhari and his guards. Bukhari and one guard were killed and another security guard critically injured,” he said.

(Source of Data – Committee to Protect Journalists)

Here is the list of journalists who were killed by militants in past:

February 19, 1991 — Lassa Koul, the director of Doordarshan Kendra in Srinagar.

April, 23, 1991 — Mohammmad Shaban Vakil, editor of Alfasa, Urdu newspaper. Shot dead by unidentified gunmen in his office.

September 10, 1995 — Mushtaq Ali, AFP photographer killed with letter bomb delivered by a woman at his office.

April 10, 1996 — Ghulam Rasool Shaikh, editor of Urdu daily Rehnuma-e-Kashmir, and English weekly Saffron Times. Body found floating in Jhelum. Family alleges he was abducted and killed by a paramilitary group.

January 1,1997 — Altaf Ahmad Fakhtoo, Doordarshan anchor, shot dead.

March 16, 1997 — Saidian Shafi, Doordarshan reporter, shot dead along with bodyguard.

April 8, 1997 — Tariq Ahmad, pvt TV producer.

April 10, 2000 — Pradeep Bhatia, HT photojournalist, killed in bomb blast while covering a grendade attack in Srinagar.

2003 — Parvaz Mohmmad Sultan, editor of News and Feature Alliance (NAFA), shot dead by unidentified gunmen in his office.

April 20, 2004 — Asiya Jeelani, freelancer, killed in a landmine blast in Kupwara.

May 9, 2004 — Abdul Majid Bhat, reporter working in information department, killed in bomb blast in Doda town.

May 11, 2008 — Ashok Sodhi, Dailly Excelsior photographer, killed in LoC crossfire in Samba district of Jammu.