Youth murdered in broad day light

Varanasi, October 15: A youth was shot dead just before the Aurangabad police outpost under Luxa police station today.

SP-City Vijay Bhushan said that Khurshid (24 years) had recently joined a glass and plywood shop in Aurangabad area.

At about 10.30 am, he was installing a signboard outside his shop when two armed miscreants raided the place and shot him dead from point blank range, Bhushan said adding that the killers fled from the scene on foot.

Receiving the information of the incident, the police reached the incident site and rushed Khurshid to SPG hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead.

The SP said that the murder was a result of dispute between two labourers.

Khurshid’s family had lodged an FIR against unidentified assailants but the killers had been identified, Bhushan said adding that the miscreants would be nabbed soon.

—Agencies