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Gunmen take away head after killing one
PTI
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A person was beheaded after being shot dead at his residence at Ratu Bazar Tand in the Jharkhand capital in the wee hours today, the police said here.

Four men barged into Vinod Rawani’s house around 1 am, shot him dead, chopped off his head and took it away with them, the sources said, adding Rawani’s family filed FIR against three persons.

According to the FIR filed with the Ratu police station, the family members woke up following the commotion but were scared at the sight of guns. Rawani, who was a vendor of cosmetics, is survived by two wives and the police suspected family feud could be reason behind the incident.

A family member had on September 9 said to have warned Rawani to leave the place following a threat to his life, the police said. The torso was recovered and sent for post mortem.

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(Published 11 September 2012, 14:40 IST)