School teacher shot dead

Mau, February 18: A government school teacher has been shot dead by three unidentified persons near Daulsepur village, officials said here on Thursday.

Omprakash Chand, posted as an assistant teacher at a government school, was shot at by three motorcycle-borne persons near the village under Ranipir police station area on Wednesday evening, they said.

Chand was later taken to a hospital in Varanasi but he succumbed on the way, police said.

—-PTI