Days after eight policemen were killed in the Kanpur shoot-out, while attempting to arrest history-sheeter Vikas Dubey, Uttar Pradesh Additional Director General of Police Prashant Kumar revealed details of the post-mortem report on Monday, 14 July.
In a press briefing, Kumar said sharp-edged weapons and guns were used to kill the eight policemen, as per news agency ANI.
The accused had allegedly managed to loot the firearms of the policemen.
According to the police, there were a total of 21 accused in the case out of which four have been arrested while six were killed in "police proceedings" in different incidents. Dubey was one of the six killed.
Dubey, the prime accused in the Kanpur shoot-out incident, was killed in an alleged police encounter on 10 July, while being taken from MP's Ujjain to the UP city.
His dramatic arrest in Madhya Pradesh, on 9 July, had come after almost a week-long hunt that spanned three states.
(With inputs from ANI)
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