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String of shooting cases ups Delhi's crime graph
Published on Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 18:29 in 
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CRIME CAPITAL: Three separate shooting incidents were reported in east Delhi late on Tuesday.
New Delhi: Three separate shooting incidents were reported in east Delhi late on Tuesday.
In the first, a pillion rider shot at another driver and fled the scene. In another area, two bike-borne assailants shot at a passerby. Three others on bikes looted a jewellery shop at gunpoint and fled while shooting in the air. Two of them, however, were caught by the bystanders.
“It seemed as if the car’s tyre had burst. People ran after them and they managed to catch two of them,” an eyewitness, Vijay Kumar, said.
Delhi has seen at least eight such shooting incidents in July so far.
On Saturday, two shopkeepers were shot in Delhi’s Ambedkar Nagar. A day earlier, two traders were shot dead at Amar Colony in South Delhi. Twenty-five minutes later, the assailants shot a man a few kilometres away.
On Wednesday, three people were killed when rival gangs clashed in north east Delhi and a day earlier, a 54-year-old mobile store employee was shot dead.
The police are investigating if bike-borne gangs are involved. It's not just in the Capital, the crime graph is rising in the national capital region too. On Tuesday, one student was killed in a shooting incident at Ghaziabad as well.
(With inputs from Amit Pande)
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