Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh shot dead in her Bengaluru home
Follow UsSenior journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead at her home in Bengaluru's Rajarajeshwari Nagar on Tuesday evening.
News reports said she died from multiple bullet wounds to her body.
Lankesh edited the Gauri Lankesh Patrike, which is seen as being "anti-establishment."
#UPDATE: Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh succumbed to multiple bullet wounds on her body (File picture) pic.twitter.com/NShi2KJIM0
— ANI (@ANI) September 5, 2017
There has been a shootout at #GauriLankesh's house this evening; she is no more. Body found in her veranda: M.N. Anucheth, DCP, West
— ANI (@ANI) September 5, 2017
Protest being held outside senior journalist #GauriLankesh's residence in Bengaluru's Rajarajeshwari Nagar; she was shot dead this evening. pic.twitter.com/q8MwyJJkT9
— ANI (@ANI) September 5, 2017
There are two CCTV cameras; three teams are working on this: Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy #GauriLankesh pic.twitter.com/y3rO0ryhvB
— ANI (@ANI) September 5, 2017
"There has been a shootout at Gauri Lankesh's house this evening; she is no more. Body found in her verandah," MN Anucheth, DCP West, said.
"This is a cowardly act, she is just a writer & journalist, not a terrorist or naxalite," ANI reported her friend Dwarkanath as saying.
Karnataka home minister Ramalinga Reddy said, ""There are two CCTV cameras; three teams are working on this."