Khammam (Telangana), Oct. 31 -- Veteran CPI (M) leader Samineni Rama Rao was brutally murdered by unidentified assailants in his house at Patarlapadu village in Khammam district in the early hours today.
According to sources, three assailants attacked the 70-year-old leader with knives while he was about to go for morning walk at his residence and slit his throat, killing him on the spot, in his village in Chintakani mandal under Mahidra Assembly constituency.
The gruesome incident triggered tension in the village as a large number of CPI (M) activists and its frontal organizations reached the village from different parts of the district on learning the news of Rama Rao's murder.
Police officials visited the village and took stock of the...