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The local leader, Shiv Kumar, along with his driver and security guard were headed to Ghaziabad when they were waylaid by unidentified assailants and shot.
A local BJP leader and his driver were shot dead today by unidentified assailants in the Bisrakh area here, the police said.
The incident took place near Tigri village when former village pradhan Shiv Kumar, his driver and security guard were going towards Ghaziabad in a car, Bisrakh SHO Ajay Kumar Sharma
Kumar, a local BJP leader, and the driver died on the spot. The security guard has been admitted to a Delhi hospital, he said.
The police officer said that the driver lost control of the car which rammed into another vehicle. A woman was injured in the accident and she has been hospitalised, he said.
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