Nagaur hotel operator shot as trader displayed pistol, dies in ambulance crash
Police said the hotel operator was accidentally shot by a liquor trader in Nagaur and died when the ambulance taking him to Jodhpur met with an accident.
A hotel owner in Rajasthan's Nagaur district was tragically shot and died after an ambulance he was traveling in collided with an under-construction drain during an accident. Police have denied a dispute over delayed food service as the reason for the shooting. The incident occurred around 4:30 am on Friday in Kharnal village. Liquor trader Mahipal Bishnoi, a resident of Bhopalgarh, arrived at the Neelkanth Hotel in Kharnal after eating and showing his country-made pistol to the hotel owner, Ram Kumar.
Mahipal then fled the scene after the accidental firing. Ram Kumar, who was shot in the chest, was taken to JLN Hospital in Nagaur in an ambulance but died when the vehicle crashed, overturning. The ambulance driver, hotel owner Ram Prasad, and employee Ranjit sustained injuries and are recovering at the hospital. Police are searching for Mahipal Bishnoi, and have questioned others present at the hotel to reconstruct the events leading to the tragic accident.
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