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| BJP leader Haren Pandya murdered in Gujarat |
| 2003-03-26 |
| Former Gujarat home minister Haren Pandy was shot dead on Wednesday by an unidentified gunman as he was returning from a morning walk in the Law Garden, about two km from his residence in Ahmedabad. 43-year-old Pandya was hit by five bullets fired from close range in his chest, neck and lower abdomen and was rushed to V.S. Hospital where doctors unsuccessfully struggled to save him. Doctors who attended to Pandya said he was already clinically dead when he was brought to the hospital at 11:00 a.m. local time. Official sources said the gunman on a motorcycle opened fire on Pandya when he sat in his car and was about to drive back home at around 10:30 a.m. after finishing his morning walk. The tactics suggest Islamist hard boyz, but at this point the murderers could be anyone... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |