Bike-borne assailants attack scribe

June 7th, 2011 - 11:58 pm ICT by IANS  

New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) Two bike-borne assailants attacked a scribe with a surgical knife, police said Tuesday.

“Farhan Yahiya, 31, was attacked in the Chandni Chowk area Tuesday at around 2 a.m. while he was on his way to cover the BJP protest at Rajghat,” said a senior police officer. Yahiya is a resident of Central Delhi’s Ballimaran area.

The assailants waylaid Yahiya, who was also on his bike, and hit him with a surgical knife on his face and fled from the spot, police said.

Yahiya, who works for a national daily, was rushed to a hospital.

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