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Allahabad: Trader attacked outside his shop over property dispute

Prayagraj: A 30-year-old trader dealing in construction material was attacked by two unidentified men outside his shop in Kaurihar Bazaar, under the limits of Nawabganj police station, on Friday morning.

The trader was identified as Anurag alias Monu Singh.

ASP (Soraon) Ashok Venket K said the attack follows an old dispute over a piece of land between two rival groups.

He added that two members of one of the groups, including one Mamood, reached the trader’s shop on Friday and got into an argument with him.

Things turned ugly, when the trader raised an alarm and the accused opened fire in the air to keep a crowd from assembling on the spot. One of the accused hit the trader with a stone on the latter’s head and escaped.

Anurag was rushed to hospital for treatment and his condition is stated to be stable.

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