Information About Incident 40154-76861-187711 in Durg India

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He said the two brothers had gone to their ancestral village for Durga Puja celebrations whey they were attacked by four assailants on bicycles, who managed to escape.

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• Meta Location: Durga Puja
• Matched District: Durg
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: by four assailants on bicycles , who managed to escape
• Subject: whey

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Suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres opened fire at the two sons of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP) and tribal leader Baliram Kashyap from Bastar District on September 26, leaving one of them dead, The Hindu reported. The victim s brother sustained injuries in the shoulder when the Maoists fired at them in their ancestral village where the two siblings had gone to celebrate Durga Puja (religious festival). While Tansen, son of the BJP MP and tribal leader Baliram Kashyap, succumbed to his head injuries sustained in the attack in the Pairaguda village, his bother Dinesh was wounded in the shoulder, said Inspector-General of Police R. K. Vij. He said the two brothers had gone to their ancestral village for Durga Puja celebrations whey they were attacked by four assailants on bicycles, who managed to escape. It is suspected that the attack was carried out by the quick action group of the Maoists. Tansen was Chairman of the the Bhanpuri block (administrative division) panchayat (billage level local self government institution) while Dinesh is the chief of the District Cooperative Bank.

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