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Indian newspapers express horror over Paris magazine killing

Xinhua, January 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

India's mainstream English dailies Thursday expressed horror at the terrorist attack in Paris in front page top stories, which killed at least 12 people and injured several others earlier on Wednesday.

"They Came for The Cartoonist," said The Indian Express. "In the worst terror attack in France in recent decades, masked gunmen shouting 'Allahu Akbar' stormed the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical weekly known for lampooning religion including radical Islam", it said in its front page story lead.

"Heavily armed masked gunmen shouting 'Allahu Akbar' stormed the Paris office of a satirical weekly magazine, killing 12 including the paper's editor-in-chief, deputy chief editor, and three cartoonists," said the daily The Pioneer.

"Barbarism: 10 journalists among dead, gunmen shout 'we've avenged the Prophet" was the headline of the HIndustan Times front page report, while The Time of India said "Jihadis Storm satirical newspaper's Paris office, four of France's top cartoonists among dead" in its headline.

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have both condemned the terrorist attack and expressed solidarity with the French people and government. Endi