Kathmandu: Police have been investigating how an Indian “hitman” walked into a jail and gunned down the former head of a Nepali TV station being held there.
Mohammed Yunus Ansari was wounded in the shoulder and is reported to be in a stable condition. The gunman was arrested at the scene.
Ansari is being held on suspicion of drug trafficking and counterfeiting.
The shooting happened at the heavily guarded Central Prison in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu.
The gunman has been named as Jasjeet Singh from India’s Punjab province. He is reported to have walked into the jail entered the visitors’ area and attempted to kill Ansari in front of the guards.
“Singh hid the revolver in the crotch of his trousers,” police commissioner, Arjun Jung Shahi told media in Kathmandu.
He had been scanned with a metal detector and manually searched yet he managed to get through with a gun.
“He approached the place where visitors are and fired, but his gun didn’t work. He tried to fire three times. Then a duty constable grabbed him and pushed his hand to one side so his next bullet only hit Ansari in the shoulder,” Shahi said.
After he was arrested, the gunman told police that he was promised 1.5 million Indian rupees to assassinate Shahi. He said he was paid half the money in advance.
Police say they are searching for two accomplices, believed to be Indian nationals.
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