Lucknow: A Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) worker and a local journalist was shot dead on Saturday by bike-borne assailants in Ghazipur district.
His brother was also critically injured in the shootout and has been referred for treatment to Varanasi.
According to police reports, the RSS worker Rajesh Misra, 35, and his brother Amitesh Misra were sitting in their shop in Karanda area, early on Saturday morning, when three motorcycle-borne assailants came and indiscriminately opened fire at them.
Rajesh died on the spot and Amitesh had been hospitalised. Panic prevailed in the locality after the shootout and angry youth protesting the killing of the RSS worker started collecting near the district hospital in large numbers. They forced shops to pull down their shutters and also vandalised some shops. A case has been registered against three unnamed assailants.
