Burari: Three killed, five injured in gang war

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 18

Three persons, including a woman passer-by, were killed and five were injured as two gangs fired at each other in broad daylight on the streets of Delhi, said a police official.

Shots were fired from two SUVs – a Scorpio and a Fortuner – at a busy marketplace at Burari in north Delhi. The police said members of two local groups, the Gogi gang and the Tillu gang, fired at each other from their cars around 10.15 am.

The two gangs are accused in cases of extortion and murder in the city.

Three persons were killed - Mukesh, a member of the Tillu gang, Sujeet, a suspected member of the Gogi gang and a woman who happened to be passer-by.

The two gangs have killed each other's members earlier to gain supremacy, the official said.

The woman, who was in the vicinity, was caught in the firing and died of bullet wounds. Two men from both the gangs were also killed in the firing. CCTV camera footage from the area shows a man stepping out of a white SUV and running just after another man can be seen limping.

A member of one of the gangs was emerging after a gym session when the firing started. Police said members of the Tillu gang, who were in the Scorpio, were hit by the other SUV.

There have been previous instances of shootouts between the two gangs, according to the police. Their rivalry has led to 15 murders. The rivalry between the leaders of the two gangs - now in their twenties - began in 2010 during the Delhi University Student Union elections when they were hired by the students to help them fight the polls. One of them, Jitender Gogi, is missing and carries a reward of Rs 2 lakh. His name figures on the Delhi police's most-wanted list.