Mangalore: Unidentified assailants slain youngster at a saloon in Kannur
Bellevision Media Network
Mangalore, 31 Oct 2014: A youngster was brutally murdered by unidentified assailants at a hairdresser’s saloon in Kannur, here on Friday October 31 morning.
The deceased has been identified as twenty-eight-year-old Ejaz, son of Ismail residing at Kannur in Adyar, here.
Ejaz had come for a haircut and shaving at a saloon, located at Kannu, here on Friday morning, when the assailants rushed inside the saloon. Two among the attackers hacked Ejaz with machetes, while others kept watch outside. The people nearby the saloon who were in utter shock ran helter swelter. Ejaz breathed his last on the spot, when the assailants fled from the scene.
It is suspected that it was an act of vengeance as Ejaz’s name was linked to the murder of a person about a year ago.
Mangalore rural police rushed to the spot, shifted the body to district Wenlock Hospital for autopsy.
The police registered a case in this regard. A manhunt has been laid to trace the assailants at the earliest.
The city police commissioner R Hitendra visited the spot and is guiding the investigations.