Killings – Journalists

Subhash Kumar Mahto, a reporter with the cable station City News, was fatally shot outside his home in the village of Sakho, in the Indian state of Bihar’s Begusarai district, on May 20, 2022, according to news reports and Saurabh Kumar, general secretary of the Begusarai District Journalists Association, who spoke to CPJ by phone.

Mahto was returning from a wedding dinner with his family members at around 8:45 p.m. when he was shot in the head by four men, who then fled the scene, those reports said.

Mahto frequently posted his reporting to Public App, a smartphone-based video app, where he had over 1,300 followers. His last post, about threats received by local government officials, was viewed over 29,000 times, according to a review of his page by CPJ.