AURANGABAD: A parking spat careened out of control and turned bloody in Bihar's Aurangabad district on Monday, leaving four people, including a bystander, dead and two others critically injured.
According to Aurangabad SP Swapna Ji Meshram, three of those killed were part of a larger group and lynched by villagers after some of them fired at a shopkeeper who objected when they parked their car in front of his outlet in Nabinagar area.
The bullet missed the shopkeeper and hit the bystander instead. "The deceased bystander has been identified as Ramsharan Chauhan (65)," Meshram said. Those in the car were coming from Palamu in neighbouring Jharkhand. After the bystander took the bullet and collapsed, scores of irate villagers dragged the youths out of the car and thrashed them. Two of them died on the spot and one in hospital hours later.
"The identities of the deceased could not be ascertained so far. The other two critical are unable to speak," the SP said.