High drama prevailed at the Improvement Trust Colony No 7 here on Wednesday morning as around 200 cops surrounded it following threats by a Punjab Ex-Serviceman Corporation (PESCO) employee, also an ex-armyman, threatening to go on a killing spree in the heavily populated area.

PESCO provides welfare and employment services for ex-servicemen, which includes sending security guards on prison duty.

Police said the ex-armyman had stolen the rifle while on jail duty.

On Tuesday night, he allegedly killed his wife and mother-in-law at Khuthi village in Dorangla block before arriving at the IT Colony.

The police got information in the morning that a “man carrying an AK-47 rifle was all set to go on a shooting spree”.

SSP Aditya was sounded and within half an hour the police had surrounded t

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