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Shiv Sena leader stabbed to death in Mumbai

| @indiablooms | Jan 08, 2018, at 06:28 pm

Mumbai, Jan 8 (IBNS) :  Shiv Sena leader  Ashok Sawant  was stabbed to death on Sunday night near his  residence in Mumbai's Kandivali east  by two unknown assailants, media reports said.

A former corporator of Mumbai,  Sawant was attacked  when he was  returning home  in Samta nagar after meeting a friend.

Reports said he was declared dead after being taken to a hospital.

Poice  rushed to the spot of the incident and started an investigation.

Police were also trying to determine if there was a CCTV near the scene of the crime. postmortem.

Media reports said that  Sawant had been in a cable business. .

Sawant is survived by his wife, son and two daughters.

 

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