06 January 2006
Prahlad Goala
Knife attack
Prahlad Goala was apparently murdered in India's northeastern state of Assam.
Goala had recently written a series of articles on corruption in the Assamese-language daily Asomiya Khabar that linked local forestry service officials to timber smuggling. Goala, 32, was riding a motorcycle near his home in eastern Assam's Golaghat district when he was apparently rammed by a truck.
When police arrived at the scene, they found that Goala had been stabbed several times.
