India, July 7 -- Three unidentified assailants shot dead a businessman, Sanjay Verma, 54, outside his showroom in Abohar town of Punjab's border district of Fazilka at 10am on Monday.

Police said Verma, the owner of textile firm Wearwell, had just stepped out of his Hyundai i20 car in the morning when the assailants approached him on foot and opened fire. Verma was rushed to a nearby hospital by shocked employees, but he succumbed to the injuries soon after.

Police sources said that the attackers fired 8 to 10 rounds as four bullets had hit the car's windshield and four cartridges were found outside the vehicle. The sources said that he had received an extortion call recently.

The police recovered an abandoned motorcycle from a narrow ...