Attacks – Journalists

A bomb was hurled by unknown persons at the residence of Patricia Mukhim, the editor of The Shillong Times, on Tuesday evening, in Meghalaya’s Umpling. No one was hurt in the incident.

Eyewitnesses told the local media, at around 8.25 pm last night, two men on a motorcycle, with their faces masked, were seen near her residence, hurling a petrol bomb at Ms Mukhim’s bedroom window. The superintendent of police, Davis Marak, reached the spot soon after he was informed by the locals, say reports.