Petty dispute led to sensational broad daylight killing of two youths in Aligarh on Monday. Senior police officers rushed to the spot soon after they learnt of the killings. Two teams were formed to carry out raids and nab the accused who said to have absconded soon after the incident.
Reports said that 28-year-old Waseem and 22-year-old Ashu, both residents of Saraiparagi area of Gandhipark in Aligarh were going in connection with work when they had a tiff with one Suresh in Railway Road Afsara on Monday morning. Both the parties hurled abuses on each other. The matter, however, took an ugly turn when Suresh was joined by three more of his friends. All the four brutally assaulted both Waseem and Ashu before Suresh took out his license pistol. He opened indiscriminate fire killing both the friends on the spot. All the four later fled from the scene of crime.
Meanwhile in another tragic incident, two siblings died under mysterious circumstances in Gonda on Monday morning. According to reports coming from Gonda, one Barkat Ali was living with his family comprising of a wife and two children in Kariya Chauraha in Gyanpur locality of Itiyatok. On Sunday night, his wife Badrun slept outside the house along with her 12-year-old daughter Shama and 6-year-old Tasleem. When she wake up on Monday morning she was shocked to find both children lying unconscious with thick puff coming from their mouths. She immediately alerted her husband and they rushed both to district hospital where the doctors pronounce them dead upon arrival. A case has been registered in this regard by the police and bodies were shifted for post-mortem examination.