A 30-year-old timber trader was shot dead by unidentified assailants at Garhi village in Shamli district, police said today.
Sajid Hassan was yesterday shot dead by unidentified attackers who first called him out on pretext of some work and later killed him, SHO of Garhi Pukhta police station, Amandeep said.
The body has been sent for postmortem, he said.
A case has been registered in the matter and a probe is underway to identify the assailants, the officer said.
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