List of journalists killed in Assam

{{Short description|Journalists killed in Assam}}

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This is a list of journalists killed in Assam. Since 1987, 23 editors, correspondents and reporters were killed in Assam.

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Name

!Media

!Designation

!Base

!Killed by

!Killed at

!Year

!Image

Punarmal Agarwala

| The Assam Tribune

| Correspondent

| Kampur Town

| ULFA

| Kampur Town

| {{dts|1987}}

|

Kamala Saikia

| Ajir Asom

| Local Correspondent

| Sibsagar

| ULFA

| Sibsagar

| {{dts|9 August 1991}}

|

Pabitra Narayan

| The North East Times

| Correspondent

| Sibsagar

| Suspected timber smugglers

| Sonari, Sibsagar

| {{dts|19 August 1995}}

|

Dipak Swargiary

|

| Journalist

| Goreswar

| Unidentified miscreants

|

| {{dts|24 September 1995}}

|

Manik Deuri

|

| Journalist

| Goreswar

| BLT

| Diphu

| {{dts|26 April 1996}}

|

Parag Kumar Das{{cite news | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219170054/http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=aug0409%2Fedit2 | archivedate=19 February 2012 | url=http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=aug0409%2Fedit2 | date=4 August 2009 | title=Editorial - Parag Das murder verdict: bleeding Fourth Estate | first=Saikh Md Sabah | last=Al-Ahmed | newspaper=The Assam Tribune | accessdate=24 July 2018 }}

| Asomiya Pratidin

| Executive Editor

| Guwahati

| SULFA

| Guwahati

| {{dts|17 May 1996}}

|

Panja Ali

|

| Local journalist

|

| Unidentified miscreants

| Kasugaon, Kokrajhar

| {{dts|1997}}

|

Nurul Hoque

|

| Local journalist

|

| Suspected mafia

| Hojai, Nagaon

| {{dts|1998}}

|

Alfarid Shazad

|

| Photographer

|

| Grenade explosion

| Inside Sivasagar SP's office

| {{dts|1999}}

|

Jiten Sutiya

|

| Journalist

|

| Grenade explosion

| Inside Sivasagar SP's office

| {{dts|1999}}

|

Ratneswar Sarma Shastri

|

| Senior journalist

|

| ULFA

| Barpeta

| {{dts|31 December 1999}}

|

Dinesh Brahma

|

| Journalist

|

| Assassin

| Dhubri

| {{dts|24 March 2003}}

|

Indramohan Hakasama

| Amar Asom

| Local correspondent

|

|

| Agia, Goalpara

| {{dts|2003}}

|

Prahlad Gowala

| Asomiya Khabar

| Correspondent

|

|

| Golaghat

| {{dts|6 January 2005}}

|

Kanak Raj Medhi

|

| Journalist

| Sualkuchi

| Died under mysterious circumstances

|

| {{dts|29 October 2006}}

|

Mohammad Muslimuddin

|

| Journalist

| Hojai

|

|

| {{dts|2007}}

|

Bodosa Narzary

| Bodoland TV

| Director

|

| Suspected former BLT and BPF youth wing members

| Bhabanipur, Kokrajhar

| {{dts|1 April 2007}}

|

Jagajit Saikia

|Amar Asom

|Correspondent

|Kokrajhar

|

|Kokrajhar

|{{dts|22 November 2008}}

|

Anil Mazumdar

|Aji

|Executive Editor

|

|Unidentified gunman

| Rajgarh, Guwahati

|{{dts|24 March 2009}}

|

Bimala Prasad Talukdar

|Swatantra Awaj

|Editor

|

|

|Hojai

|{{dts|4 September 2010}}

|

Rayhanu Naime

|Gana Chabuk,Deshbarta

|Journalist

|Dhubri

|Unidentified miscreants

|Dhubri, Dhubri

|{{dts|8 September 2012}}

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