Meerut, Feb. 8 -- A scrap dealer was killed and his friend deeply wounded after a group of armed assailants opened fire at them in the Zaidi Farm area of Meerut on Friday evening, police said.

The attack, which took place near the Nauchandi police station, was suspected to be revenge for a murder committed in June 2024, police said.

The deceased was identified as Aslam, 35, from Gali Number Two in Zaidi Farm Colony. According to police, Aslam was with his friend Shoaib (22), a cloth trader from the same area, when five to six attackers came to them on bikes and fired at Aslam.

Aslam was hit by at least four bullets in the waist, abdomen, chest and head, while Shoaib sustained a gunshot wound to his left shoulder. After the firing, the ...