Cricket coach shot dead in Sonipat

A cricket coach was shot dead outside a school in Haryana’s Sonipat district on Tuesday.

The incident took place outside the government senior secondary school in Kharkhoda town as the coach Sumit Badhwar was coming out, said police.

Unidentified, motorcycle-borne assailants fired on him from close range and fled from the spot.

The cricket coach was a resident of Sunarian village in the adjoining Rohtak district.

Police said that Bhadwar was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead.

Police added that they are investigating the reason behind the killing.

The incident took place barely a month after an assistant professor was shot dead by his student inside the Shaheed Dalbir Singh College in the same town, Kharkhoda on  March 13.

Earlier in January, a class XII student had shot dead his school’s principal inside her office with his father’s revolver in Haryana’s Yamunanagar, days after he was warned for low attendance.