KHAGARIA, Nov. 30 -- A 25- year-old groom died after a bullet hit him during the celebratory firing in a post marriage ceremony in Bihar's Khagaria district on Saturday night. During the firing the bride was also at the dais, but she luckily escaped unhurt.

The incident took place at Kutubpur village under Muffasil police station.

The police said that after the nikah of Mohammad Irshad and Rukhsar Khatun, both residents of Kutubpur, people were preparing for other marriage rituals when a young man sitting on the dais fired and the bullet hit in the neck of the groom who started bleeding profusely.

"Soon the injured was rushed to Khagaria hospital from where the doctors referred him to Patna. However, he died on the way," said a police ...