Date:27/12/2002 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2002/12/27/stories/2002122705780100.htm

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7 gunned down in Bihar

By K. Balchand

PATNA Dec. 26. Seven persons, including two women and three children, were gunned down by a criminal gang in Barichak village under Masaurhi police station of the district on Wednesday.

Police said the gang, led by Sunil Kranti, expelled from the PWG, killed members of two families with whom he had a land dispute in the village. One of the children killed was an infant. While the police have sealed the district and launched a manhunt for the killers, none of them has been nabbed as yet.