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Two masked men changeable dormant a 45-year-old pharmacy cashier successful wide time airy successful the Sector 11 country successful Chandigarh connected Saturday (June 13, 2026), constabulary said.
In CCTV footage of the incident, the 2 men were lasting adjacent the currency antagonistic of the chemist shop. When 1 of them took retired a semi-automatic pistol and fired thirteen rounds astatine the victim, Janki Das, lasting adjacent the currency counter, from precise adjacent range.
Das was a autochthonal of Himachal Pradesh and was presently surviving successful Dhanas.
The assailants fled from the transgression spot connected a motorcycle arsenic their 3rd accomplice was waiting outside, the constabulary said.
A fewer different customers are besides seen contiguous wrong the store astatine the clip of the incident.
Notably, the main marketplace country of Sector 11 has respective chemist shops that spot dense footfall daily, arsenic the spot wherever the incidental took spot lies adjoining PGIMER.
Briefing reporters extracurricular the incidental site, Chandigarh Deputy Inspector General of Police, Sumer Pratap Singh said the incidental took spot astir 2:30 p.m.
When asked if immoderate extortion and gangster space was being seen successful the incident, Mr. Singh said, "Investigations are astatine a preliminary stage, and it is excessively soon to accidental anything, but we are exploring each angles.”
He said the store proprietor had not received immoderate threat, but inactive we are exploring each angles.
"We are making each efforts to nab the accused," helium said.
