NEW DELHI: Two people were killed in outer Delhi’s
Narela after some unidentified gunmen opened fire at them late on Wednesday evening.
Prima facie, it appeared to be a case of neighborhood rivalry, a senior cop said, adding that they were investigating all angles.
Police received a PCR call about the incident around 9pm and a team was rushed to the spot.
The assailants, locals told the cops, were in a car and fired indiscriminately using
pistols.
The cops are scanning footage from
CCTV cameras to identify them.
One of the deceased was the target, while the other, cops suspect, was a passerby who came in the line of fire. The target is a local resident of Kuraini in Narela and worked as a driver.
An FIR under IPC Section 302 pertaining to
murder has been registered and a team formed to investigate the matter. The bodies have been sent to the mortuary for postmortem, which will be conducted on Thursday morning.