A bar manager of Singsari under Umarkote tehsil, Deepak Singh, was shot dead by unknown assailants at Karagam village under the Dabugam police station on Monday morning.
Sources said Singh was proceeding to Umarkote on his bike to deposit some cash in a bank. The assailants who were following him came from his back side by a bike and opened fire at him from pointblank range, leaving him dead on the spot.
According to eyewitnesses, the assailants were three in number wearing masks. After the incident, they fled towards Singsari village with the cash bag of Songh.
Nabarangpur SP B Jugal Kishor, Umarkote SDPO Gopinath Manipatro and IICs of Umarkote and Dabugam police stations rushed to the spot and recovered a bullet and seized the body and launched investigation into the incident.