Muzaffarnagar (UP), Sep 25 (PTI) A 22-year-old man who had eloped with a girl allegedly shot her before killing self on Thursday morning, just as a police team arrived to rescue the minor, officials said.

According to police, Prince (22) and his 15-year-old girlfriend, had run away from a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar and were traced to a rented room in Bulandshahr.

The girl’s family in their complaint claimed that Prince had kidnapped the minor on September 19, Circle Officer (CO) Ravi Shanker said.

The officer said that a case had been registered against the accused at the Chapar police station, following which a police team located the couple in Bulandshahr.

“When police tried to arrest the man during early Thursday, he shot dead his girlfriend, and later shot self too,"

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