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Puthiya Tamizhagam functionary hacked to death

Staff Reporter

TIRUCHI: A Puthiya Tamizhagam party functionary was hacked to death by an armed gang here late on Monday. Bharathi Devendran (31) was the urban district secretary of the party.

The five-member gang, which was waiting in an autorickshaw, attacked Bharathi Devendran near a theatre under the Gandhi Market police station limits while he was coming along with his brother after having dinner in a roadside joint. He died on the spot. The assailants escaped.

Senior police officers rushed to the spot and conducted inquiries. The autorickshaw has been seized, police sources said. The city police have secured three persons in connection with the murder, the motive for which is being investigated.

As a precautionary measure, the city police were put on alert. A posse of police personnel were deployed in front of the mortuary inside K.A.P. Viswanatham Government Medical College Hospital here where the post mortem was conducted. Puthiya Tamizhagam functionaries had assembled in strength.

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