Bhubaneswar (PTI): A murder that took place around 8 am, an attack on a President award-winning teacher, and a theft in a temple are among several crimes to have rocked Bhubaneswar on a single day on Monday.

Following the crimes, opposition parties slammed the BJP government over the law and situation in the Odisha capital.

A laboratory attendant of AIIMS Bhubaneswar was shot dead by unidentified persons when he was on a motorbike to the hospital around 8 am, police said.

The victim, Sudhanshu Khuntia, was an outsourced worker.

According to the police, some miscreants chased and fired on him near Ransinghpur. Locals shifted him to the AIIMS, where doctors declared him dead.

The police began an investigation and suspected that Khuntia was killed over some past rivalry.

Khuntia's fami

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