Bengaluru, June 3 -- A 35-year-old man was brutally murdered inside a bakery in Tavargera town of Kushtagi taluk of Koppal District in Karnataka late on Saturday night, in what police say was the culmination of a decades-old family feud intensified by a recent land dispute and political rivalry.

The victim, identified as Channappa Husenappa Narinhal, was attacked with machetes by a group of assailants who had allegedly been waiting for him to return from a hospital visit. As he reached the Sindhanur Cross on his motorbike, the group ambushed him, forcing him to flee into a nearby bakery in a desperate attempt to save his life.

Superintendent of police Dr Ram Arasiddi confirmed that seven suspects have been arrested in connection with th...