Information About Incident 61788-123966-314302 in Guntur India

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He was returning to his village in a car when an unidentified person wearing a mask closed in on his car near Marupaka village and opened two rounds of fire with a short weapon killing Venugopal Rao instantaneously.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Marupaka
• Matched District: Guntur
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: a short weapon
• Subject: Venugopal Rao

Context

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Left Wing Extremists belonging to the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist-Janashakti (CPI-ML-Janashakti), which once had a strong presence in Karimnagar District, has again regrouped and returned by striking terror and killing a former Sarpanch (head of Gram Panchayat, village level local self-government institution), identified as A. Venugopal Rao (55), at Marupaka village of Vemulawada mandal (administrative unit) in the night of February 11, reports The Hindu. Police sources said that Venugopal Rao was a former sympathiser of Janashakthi group. He was returning to his village in a car when an unidentified person wearing a mask closed in on his car near Marupaka village and opened two rounds of fire with a short weapon killing Venugopal Rao instantaneously.

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