Raipur: In a daring attack, suspected Naxals opened fire at the sons of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and MP from Bastar district in Chhattisgarh Baliram Kashyap, leaving one of them dead.
"Naxals fired several rounds at Kashyap's sons - Dinesh and Tansen - when they were at a Mahashthami Durga Puja celebration in Bastar district," a top police official said.
Both were admitted to Maharani Hospital in Jagdalpur, where Tansen succumbed to his injuries, Police Department spokesman, Inspector General RK Vij said.
The two brothers had gone to their ancestral village for Durga pooja celebrations whey they were attacked by four cycle-borne assailants, who managed to escape, he said.
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