Armed bike-borne miscreants opened firing at three friends at Manki village in Samrala on Monday night. Two youths had suffered bullet injuries, of which one had died during treatment at a hospital in Chandigarh while treatment of the other was going on.

Old enmity was said to be the cause of the murderous attack. Initially, some villagers told mediapersons that the deceased was a kabaddi player but the police categorically denied the same and said the victim was fond of keeping pigeons at his house and he was not into kabaddi sport professionally. He might have played the game at the village.

Superintendent of Police (Detective), Khanna, Pawanjit, said the incident occurred around 9 pm on Monday night when three youths, identified as Gurvinder Singh Ginda (23), Dharampal Singh Dharmu an

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