Ex-mukhiya killed in Jamui bomb blast

Munger

: One person was killed in a pre-panchayat poll violence in Jamui district on Saturday.

Jamui district magistrate-cum-district returning officer Dr Kaushal Kishore said former mukhiya Arjun Yadav was killed when two motorcycle-borne criminals hurled bombs at him when he was coming out of the chamber of the returning officer (RO) at Chakai where his wife Kaushalya, a mukhiya aspirant, filed her nomination papers around 2pm. The victim was a resident of Kalyanpur under Chandramandi police station, about 70 km from the district headquarters.

Eyewitnesses said the assailants, who were waiting for Arjun, hurled bombs at him soon after he stepped out of the BDO office along with his wife. Arjun was also the chairperson of Kalyanpur primary agriculture co-operative society.

Police said the injured PACS chairperson was rushed to a Deoghar hospital where the doctors pronounced him brought dead.