A professor of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, was killed and three others were injured when unidentified gunmen fired indiscriminately inside the prestigious Indian Institute of Sciences (IIS) here today. | |
| The police identified the dead as MC Puri and those injured as Pankaj Gupta, Sangeeta and Patel. |
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| According to police, four-five persons came in a white Ambassador car inside the campus of the institute and opened fire from automatic weapons outside the JN Tata Auditorium, where an international conference was on, at around 5 pm. |
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| The injured were admitted to the MS Ramaiah Hospital. Police have cordoned off the area and have launched a hunt for the assailants who fled the scene. |
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| The institute is on the hit list of terrorist groups, including Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba. Asked if it was a terrorist attack, Police Commissioner Ajay K Singh said, "We can not say anything at this stage". |
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| He said it appeared that an automatic weapon was used in the shooting. "There is no information on how they came and who they were," he added. |
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| Police were combing the institute complex to ensure that there were no explosives left by the gunmen. One car parked inside the complex was hit by a bullet. |
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