PROMINENT journalist Shujaat Bukhari was shot dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday evening in an attack that also killed one of his bodyguards.

Mr Bukhari, the editor of the Rising Kashmir newspaper, was leaving his office when three men approached on a motorcycle, gunning him down. He was taken to hospital but died from his injuries.

His killers remain unknown and the attack occurred just hours after he posted a tweet about a United Nations call for “a comprehensive independent international investigation” into alleged human rights abuses in Kashmir.