RSS worker shot dead in UP's Ghazipur

October 21, 2017 12:29

A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh worker and local journalist Rajesh Mishra was on Saturday shot dead by bike-borne assailants in Karanda area of Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur district, news agency ANI reported.

Mishra's brother, who was with him at the time, was also shot and is critically injured.

The shooting comes just four days after a senior RSS leader Ravinder Gosain was shot dead at his residence in Punjab's Ludhiana by two masked gunmen on a motorcycle.

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