Man killed over water in Uttar Pradesh

A middle-aged man was killed over filling of water from a municipality tap in an Uttar Pradesh town, police said.

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Yaseen Khan, 40, was filling water from a municipality tap in Siddharthanagar, 243 km from here, late Wednesday, a police officer said.

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With long queues to fill water, tempers were high as water had not been coming in the Lotan locality at Simarwa square, said the officer.

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Yaseen went to fill in water for his household chores and was confronted by some local bullies. He was beaten to death, police said.

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The district is facing unprecedented water crisis and serpentine queues are seen at many places.

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The body has been sent for post-mortem. An FIR (first information report) has been lodged against three people - Sunil, Meghe and Alok, all residents of a nearby locality Kamarha, said a spokesman of the home department.

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