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Undertrial hacked to death in A.P. town

Staff Reporter

Two assailants seriously injured as police open fire

ANANTAPUR: An undertrial in several criminal cases Hanumantha Rayudu (32) was allegedly hacked to death by three persons wielding hunting sickles on the platform of RTC bus station here on Friday evening.

Passengers began running helter-skelter immediately after the assailants pounced on Rayudu. Two of the assailants were injured seriously when escort policemen — Ramanjaneyulu and Jayaram Naik — opened fire on them with .303 rifles while they were fleeing.

The undertrial was being brought back to District Jail at Reddypalli, after producing him in the Junior Civil Judge Court at Kalyanadurg in three extortion cases and two cases of illegal possession of arms. One of the assailants Srinivasulu of Mamillapalli went to Government General Hospital after fleeing from the bus station.

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