Ranchi, Jan. 9 -- Unknown assailants shot dead a 60-year-old tribal man at Jamuadag under the Sadar police station of Khunti district on Wednesday, triggering a protest across the locality, police said on Thursday.

According to officials, Edelsanga Parha Raja (traditional head) and headmaster of a Hindi-medium Chalangi High School, Soma Munda, was on his way to his residence at Chalangi from Khunti town on Wednesday with his wife when two bike-borne assailants overtook their bike, and the pillion rider fired two shots at him. He was rushed to KS Ganga Hospital in the town, where doctors declared him dead.

A police official deputed for the maintenance of law and order in the district said the protesters, including Soma Munda's wife, Amri...