Atiq Ahmed, the Uttar Pradesh gangster who faced at least 100 criminal cases, and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were killed today while they were being taken for a medical check-up in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj.
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Visuals of the incident shows Atiq Ahmed and his brother walking while talking to reporters when someone shoots the gangster on the head.
The next moment his brother is also shot dead.
Atiq Ahmed's son Asad was killed in an encounter in UP's Jhansi on Thursday.
Atiq Ahmed was a Samajwadi Party MP and was convicted in a kidnapping case.
He was also an accused in the murder of Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Raju Pal in 2005 and the killing of Umesh Pal, the murdered MLA's lawyer, in February this year.
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