Mangalore:  TV9 Cameraman, Brother Attacked by Sand Mining Mafia 
Daijiworld Media Network—Mangalore (RS/CN)

Mangalore, Jan 6: A group with connections to the sand mining mafia attacked a cameraman of TV9 channel and his brother as they were travelling home. 

The attack is believed to be in retaliation to a news story telecast on the channel recently.

As per the information from the victim, cameraman Wilfred D’Souza, he was kidnapped by a group of men along with his brother Anil D’Souza while he was on his way home. 

Wilfred and Anil

Both victims were in a car and the vehicle was stopped near a village called Bakrabail, Kaje, under Manjeswar police station. They were confined to a remote place and attacked with lethal weapons for telecasting the news on sand mining.

The group kept the brothers in the remote place for nearly two hours and left after the police came to the spot in search of the victims after their colleagues complained.

Wilfred, a resident of Pervai in Bantwal taluk, has been working as a cameraman in the city over the past two years.   

The two victims were admitted to a hospital near Manjeswar after they were freed by the gang.

Both the Dakshina Kannada district police and Manjeswar police have treated the matter seriously and an investigation is on.