03-04-2007, 09:21 PM
<b>JMM MP killed in Naxal attack </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi: The General Secretary of JMM and MP Sunil Mahto was shot dead by Naxals in Ghatshila near Jamshedpur on Sunday.
Two of his bodyguards and a party colleague also killed in the attack during a football match organised to mark the Holi festival at a place about 40 km from Jamshedpur.
Jharkhand Home Secretary Sudhir Tripathi said in Ranchi that a group of Naxals opened gunfire from close at 38-year-old Mahato, who represented Jamshedpur constituency and was the chief guest at the match at Bakuria in East Singhbhum district. The lawmaker was killed on the spot, he added.
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Two of his bodyguards and a party colleague also killed in the attack during a football match organised to mark the Holi festival at a place about 40 km from Jamshedpur.
Jharkhand Home Secretary Sudhir Tripathi said in Ranchi that a group of Naxals opened gunfire from close at 38-year-old Mahato, who represented Jamshedpur constituency and was the chief guest at the match at Bakuria in East Singhbhum district. The lawmaker was killed on the spot, he added.
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