Noted surgeon shot dead in Allahabad: Doctors protest
Allahabad : Doctors were up on their arms after sharp shooters gunned down an eminent surgeon A K Bansal, who runs a private nursing home Jeevan Jyoti in the city.
The doctors, under the banner of IMA, has called for a strike against the gruesome killing today in the city while doctors of the state could also join them.
UP police has engaged STF to trace out the criminals who shot four bullets from a close range at his chamber in the nursing home last evening.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Salabh Mathur told UNI here said two criminals shot at the doctor from a close range at around 1845 hrs last evening, when he was talking to the patients in his chamber at his hospital situated under Kydganj police station area of the city.
He said the doctor was immediately attended to by a team of doctors but he succumbed to the bullet injuries at around 2230 hrs.
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