Chittoor / Hyderabad: Chittoor mayor and Telugu Desam leader Katari Anuradha and her husband K. Mohan were killed by five assailants in the mayor’s chambers at the corporation office in Chittoor town on Tuesday.
While Anuradha died on the spot, Mohan died nine hours later at the CMC hospital in Vellore. Two of the five assail-ants have surrendered before the police. This is the first time that a senior woman politician of the state has been murdered.
The killers, disguised in burkhas, arrived with a bouquet and posed as petitioners who had come to submit grievances to the mayor. They walked into her chambers and opened fire at the couple. Later, they stabbed them with knives.
By the time municipal staff and the public outside the office realized what had happened, the killers escaped on two wheelers. Police identified five of the assailants including a nephew of Mohan.
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