Bhubaneswar: A 47-year-old journalist who reported Maois’s activities in the Legal District was killed in alleged Landmine explosions on Saturday just as he tried to take a photo of a poster that urged people to boycott the election of Panchayat who will come in the country.
Balism, on assignment for the daily Odia, is the first journalist who died in Maoist’s violence in Odisha.
Sara Sara Saravana Vivek said the bomb disposal team was exploring the explosion site in Madanpur Rampur Block, 340 km from Bhubaneswar, for more explosives.
“Bal bismal is too close to the poster he tries to portrait and step on the anti-pressure mine, triggering an explosion that kills him instantly.” The posters prepared by the Division of Kandhamal-Law-Boudh-Nayaagarh from the Banned CPI (Maois) have been first seen near the Karlackhunta Bridge around 9am, encouraging administration to send two CRPF companies to exercise dominate the area.
The explosion that killed Balis took place around noon, shortly before the exercise began.
The journalist who was killed, the native of Madanpur Rampur, had visited the site alone on his motorcycle.
The improvised explosive device that killed him was planted by the side of the forest area along the road.
Bicycle parking is broken in the explosion.
He survived his wife, a nine-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter.