On Monday, three members of a family were shot dead over an old dispute in Bihar's Sitamarhi district. Suppi police station officer in charge, Subodh Kumar said that Salman Khan (30) and Ejaj Khan (32) were on their way to appear in the court of the SDO when half a dozen criminals who were in a Scorpio hit their motorcycles near Akhta village on the Suppi-Sitamarhi road and opened indiscriminate firing at the two.

Three members of a family were shot dead over an old dispute in #Bihar's #Sitamarhi district on August 26, police said.

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The two deceased died on the spot. According to the police officials, later, the criminals forcibly entered a house in Akhta village and shot dead 40-year-old Shahjahan Nisha. All the three deceased were close relatives. Tension gripped across the village after the incident and police forces have been deployed to control the situation.