NEW DELHI: Panic gripped the Gorakhpur Cooperative Inter College in Uttar Pradesh on Friday after an 11th-grade student was shot dead in broad daylight by unidentified assailants who stormed the campus and fled after opening fire.
The deceased has been identified as 17-year-old Sudhir Bharti, a resident of Garhwa village under the Pipraich police station area.
According to eyewitness accounts, Sudhir was standing with his friends on the college grounds when three miscreants arrived on a motorcycle. As soon as they spotted him, the attackers opened fire.