BANGALORE, INDIA—An Indian journalist was fatally shot outside her home in the southern city of Bangalore, the latest in a string of deadly attacks targeting journalists or outspoken critics of religious superstition and extreme Hindu politics. The assailants fled on a motorcycle after spraying bullets at Gauri Lankesh on Tuesday night as she was leaving her car outside her home in the Karnataka state capital. Top police officer R.K. Dutta said he had met Lankesh recently, but that she did not mention any threat to her life. Members of Indian journalism associations expressed outrage and said they would protest Wednesday afternoon in New Delhi. “The silencing of a journalist in this manner has dangerous portents for democracy,” the Indian Women’s Press Corps said in a statement.

Source: thestar September 06, 2017 09:22 UTC