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Wednesday, Jun 23, 2004

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Andhra Pradesh

Three hacked to death

By Our Staff Reporter

PRATTIPADU, JUNE 22. Three persons were hacked to death and three others were injured when a group of persons hurled bombs at them at Abbineniguntapalem today. The hacked persons, accused in a double murder case at Chintalapudi last year, were travelling in an autorickshaw from Prattipadu to Vangipuram in Pedanandipadu mandal of Guntur district.

They were returning from the Lalapeta police station in Guntur after signing the daily attendance register as per the norms of the conditional bail they were granted, when four persons hurled 15 bombs at them near a church.

When the autorickshaw did not stop, a jeep from the opposite direction dashed against it at 11.45 p.m. The assaulters hiding in a nearby bush pulled out the three identified as Sodha Samudraiah (42), Sodha Venkateswarlu (37), and Batchu Srinivasa Rao (25), and hacked them to death with daggers. While the autorickshaw driver, Nadendla Subba Rao (30), was seriously injured, two others, Gattapalli Mosha (51) and Gali Venkaiah (55), received bleeding injuries from the splinters of the bombs.

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