Auto driver shot dead in Tamil Nadu bus
Police said the incident took place at 11.30 am at Saatur bus terminus and the assailants escaped from the scene.
Madurai: In a shocking incident, a 25-year-old auto driver was shot dead inside a state transport corporation bus in Virudhunagar near here on Wednesday morning.
Two unidentified armed men who were also travelling with Karuppusamy, who hails from Kavalapatti in Virudhunagar district, killed him inside the bus heading towards Coimbatore from Nagercoil.
Police said the incident took place at 11.30 am at Saatur bus terminus and the assailants escaped from the scene, adding that initial investigations link the murder to an inter-gang rivalry. When the co-passengers raised an alarm, the gang members jumped out of the bus and escaped, they said. "A man who was sitting near the victim took out a gun and shot him after a brief altercation," they said.
Police are probing how armed men were going around freely in town to commit such a murder in a public place like a bus stand. Teams have been formed to hunt down the assailants.