Rudrapur: Mobile shop owner stabbed to death inside district hospital, brother and shop worker injured; came after a clash between two rival mobile shops, attackers on the run

A mobile shop owner was stabbed to death inside the Rudrapur district hospital on Friday morning. According to Dainik Jagran, his younger brother and a shop worker were also injured in the attack and the four attackers fled; police are conducting raids to trace them. According to Amar Ujala, there had been long-running tension over business rivalry between two mobile shops facing each other in Jagatpura-Awas Vikas, in the Transit Camp police station area. On Friday morning the two sides clashed, four people from both sides were injured and the shop's CCTV cameras were smashed. Both sides reached the district hospital with the injured, where the shop owner was allegedly attacked repeatedly with a knife during treatment; he could not be saved. According to Jagran, about a week earlier he had received a death threat in a dispute with a neighbouring mobile shop owner and had given a complaint to the police. The hospital remained tense after the incident; the two sides came face to face again in front of SP City Pramod Kumar, and police had to be deployed at the hospital.