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Assailants gunned down Rameshwar Yadav, a prominent Rashtriya Janata Dal leader, at his residence in Muzaffarpur in Bihar on Saturday.
Yadav was shot dead by three gunmen while he was reading a newspaper on the verandah of his house.
He received three bullets in the head and died on the spot, the police said.
Yadav, a former general secretary of the RJD's Muzaffarpur district unit, was an accused in the recent murder of another local RJD leader, Sanjay Thapa, and in a case of assaulting former defence minister George Fernandes.
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