PATNA: An irate mob lynched a youth when he, along with his associates, was escaping after attacking the house of a ward councillor and opening fire at Nasriganj locality under the Danapur police station late on Wednesday evening. Two relatives of the ward councillor sustained bullet injuries in the firing.
Police said over one-and-a-half dozen persons suddenly arrived at Manju Devi’s house and fired several rounds. Manju’s brother-in-law Ashok Kumar and son in-law Lalan Paswan sustained bullet injuries in the firing.
As local residents heard the sound of firing, they chased the attackers and caught one of them. His other associates managed to escape under the cover of darkness. The mob then gave the nabbed youth a thorough beating which resulted in his death.