The Hindu : ANI cameraman's death mourned

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Sunday, Jan 12, 2003

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ANI cameraman's death mourned

New York Jan. 11. The Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based, independent, non-profit organisation that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide, has mourned the death of Vikram Singh Bisht, who died on Thursday from internal injuries after falling from his wheelchair. On December 13, 2001, a suicide squad shot Bisht, a cameraman for the New Delhi-based news agency, Asian News International, while he was covering an attack on Parliament. The shooting left him paralysed from the waist down.

The assailants in the 2001 attack had entered the heavily-guarded Parliament compound, armed with AK-47s, grenades, and other explosives and fought a gunbattle with the security forces. Fourteen persons were killed, including the five attackers. In December 2002, three men were sentenced to death for planning the attack.

Bisht was hit by a bullet that became embedded in his spinal cord. He remained hospitalised and largely immobile at the All India Institute of Medial Sciences until his discharge in November 2002. On the evening of January 8, he fell from his wheelchair while at home and was taken to the AIIMS, where he died around 8:30 a.m. the following morning.

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