Senior Manager of Seaways Shipping and logistic ltd Mahendra Swain alias Babuli was shot dead by unidentified miscreants at Madhuban Chhak at Paradip on Wednesday.
The firing incident took place when Swain was on his way to his office by his car. Four miscreants came by two motorbikes and hurled bombs at his vehicle. later, they fired two rounds of bullets at him, following which he died on the spot.
The miscreants fled the spot soon after the incident.
On being informed, police rushed to the spot and started investigation. Jagatsinghpur district SP JN Pankaj also visited the spot later with a police scientific team and collected samples from the spot.
This incident was suspected to be the business rivalry of the Seaways with its competing stevedoring firms involved in stevedoring works of the Jindal Steel and Power ltd at Paradip.