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Journalist shot dead by trooper in Tripura after altercation

Agartala: Sudip Datta Bhowmik, a journalist, was hot dead by a Tripura State Rifles (TSR) trooper after an altercation in the Bodhjung Nagar in Tripura, the police informed on Tuesday.

“Tapan Debbarma, the bodyguard of the TSR’s Second Battalion Commandant, opened fire killing Sudip Datta Bhowmik on the spot,” a police officer said.

The body of Bhowmik, a reporter of Syandan Patrika and local television channel Venguard, was brought to Gobinda Ballav Panth Medical College and Hospital for postmortem.

On September 20, a television journalist, Santanu Bhowmik, 28, was killed allegedly by some activists of a party in Mandai, 35 km from Bodhjung Nagar.

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