Mysore/Mysuru, Jan. 20 -- 26-year-old youth hacked to death in Udayagiri Police Station limits

Close on the heels of a daylight assault at Rajivnagar on Sunday that left three people seriously injured, a youth was murdered between midnight and early hours of today at Ghousianagar, leaving residents in a state of shock.

The deceased is identified as Shabaz (26), a resident of Ghousianagar, who was working as a fabricator. The accused, who brutally hacked Shabaz to death, has been identified as Zubair, who was accompanied by four others at that time. Shabaz was in-charge of an auto parking shed in Ghousianagar.

The murder is said to be the fall out of dispute over auto parking rent between the deceased and the accused persons.

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