UP cops out on raid were killed by their own weapons, says autopsy reportindiaUpdated: Jul 04, 2020 21:39 ISTNotorious criminal Vikas Dubey and his accomplices used the weapons snatched from the police to gun down eight police personnel at Bikru village in Kanpur early on Friday, the post-mortem examination confirmed. Officials also said the autopsy report corroborated initial findings that the criminal had used the police weapons to kill them. Doctors took out AK-47 cartridges from the body of constable Jitendra Kumar, according to the post-mortem report. The AK 47 rifle was one of the five weapons looted from the policemen during the failed raid on Dubey’s house. The autopsy showed the bullets went through the bodies of four constables, indicating that they were shot from extremely close range, forensic experts said.

Source: Hindustan Times July 04, 2020 16:10 UTC