Multiple shots were fired at a journalist by a group of unidentified assailants in East Delhi's Ashok Nagar on Saturday night while she was driving.

According to news agency ANI, the female journalist Mitali Chandola, who is working with a media organisation in Noida, was driving her Hyundai i20 car around 12:30 am on Sunday when the incident occurred.

The report suggested that her car was overtaken by a Maruti Swift abruptly overtook her, following which the unidentified men fired two shots at her and even hurled eggs on the windshield of the car.

"Two masked assailants first threw eggs at the front glass of my car and when I did not stop, they fired two shots at me," the complainant said.

Multiple shots were fired at a journalist by a group of unidentified assailants in East Delhi's Ashok Nagar on Saturday night while she was driving.

According to news agency ANI, the female journalist Mitali Chandola, who is working with a media organisation in Noida, was driving her Hyundai i20 car around 12:30 am on Sunday when the incident occurred.

The report suggested that her car was overtaken by a Maruti Swift abruptly overtook her, following which the unidentified men fired two shots at her and even hurled eggs on the windshield of the car.

"Two masked assailants first threw eggs at the front glass of my car and when I did not stop, they fired two shots at me," the complainant said.