A young woman journalist has been murdered in southern Nepal. Uma Singh, a radio journalist in her 20s, was hacked to death by between 12 and 20 men in her room in the southern city of Janakpur.
Ms Singh is believed to be the first female reporter killed in the country, although journalists have long lived with violence or the threat of it.
A friend and fellow journalist told the BBC there was no part of her body that was not covered with blood.
She died on the way to the capital after attempts locally to help her failed.
Several were killed by the Maoists, although last year one pro-Maoist journalist was killed and another had his hand cut off.
In recent years, many varied factions have threatened reporters for not describing events as they would like them to.
An international media watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists, places Nepal on a list of 13 countries where journalists are murdered on a recurring basis and governments fail to prosecute the killers.