Erode, March 19 -- Two police personnel, including an Inspector were injured during an armed conflict with a four-member-gang, minutes after the assailants brutally murdered a history-sheeter in broad daylight, forcing the cops to open fire in self defence, injuring three of the gang members, in Erode district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday.
Police said the history-sheeter, identified as John (35) alias Chanakya was hacked to death by an armed gang, when he was coming to Tiruppur from Salem with his wife Saranya in a car at Nasiyanur on the Salem-Coimbatore National Highway in Erode today.
The gang, which followed John in two cars deliberately, rammed their vehicles into the car driven by the deceased.
The gang then attacked John with sickle...