Co-passenger shoots a man in bus in TN
posted on Oct 12, 2016 @ 4:49PM
A 25-year-old auto driver was allegedly shot dead by two armed men in broad daylight in Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar district on Wednesday. The police said the victim died on the spot. As the bus proceeding to Coimbatore slowed down at Padanthal Junction, the accused jumped off it and escaped. The deceased has been identified as Karuppasamy of Valluvar Nagar in Kovilpatti. Police said the government bus was going from Nagercoil to Coimbatore. Karuppsamy boarded the bus at Kovilpatti and took a ticket to Madurai. He was sitting in the rear portion of the bus. A man who was sitting near Karuppsamy took out a gun and shot him after a brief altercation. The incident happened around 11am when the bus was nearing Sattur. The police suspect that previous enmity over a murder reported under Kovilpatti East police station limits could be the motive behind daring crime.