AMN /
Two media persons, one in Bihar and the other in Jharkhand were shot dead in the last 24 hours. On Friday evening, Senior journalist Rajdeo Ranjan – the Siwan bureau chief of Hindi daily Hindustan – was shot dead by criminals near the railway station.
One of the bullets hit the 42-year-old Ranjan on the head and another on the neck. He was taken to the hospital where he was declared ‘brought dead’.
According to police, five motorcycle-borne criminals were waiting for Ranjan, who was walking down the road to his home. They shot him twice.
The incident came on a day RJD chief Lalu Prasad was in nearby Panki to campaign for a bylection and visited a journalist’s home to mourn his killing by criminals a day before in Jharkhand.
Meanwhile, in Jharkhand’s Chatra district, a journalist was shot dead by unidentified people on Thursday night. 35-year-old Akhilesh Pratap Singh worked for a local news channel, and was gunned down near the panchayat secretariat of his village.
Chief Minister Raghubar Das condemned the incident and asked Director General of Police DK Pandey to arrest the attackers at the earliest.