Latest news LIVE: BJP MP Ram Swaroop Sharma found dead at Delhi residence

BJP MP Ram Swaroop Sharma was found dead inside his house in Delhi’s North Avenue this morning. The police suspect that Sharma died by suicide. His body has been sent for postmortem. Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party cancelled its Parliamentary Party meeting, scheduled for this morning, after learning about Sharma’s death.

Former Union minister and BJP leader Dilip Gandhi, who had tested positive for Covid-19, also passed away at a private hospital in Delhi today. He was 70.

Eight people, including at least six Asian women, were shot dead at three day spas in Atlanta, Georgia area on Tuesday, police said, and man suspected of carrying out all of the attacks has been taken into custody.

Four victims were killed and another was wounded in a shooting on Tuesday afternoon at Young’s Asian Massage in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta, said Captain Jay Baker of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department.

In Atlanta, police officers responding to a call of a “robbery in progress” shortly before 6 pm local time arrived at a beauty spa to find three women shot dead, Police Chief Rodney Bryant told reporters.

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