Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Anuj Bidve murder: 17-year-old British teen arrested

Anuj Bidve

London -- Police arrested a teenager on suspicion of shooting dead Anuj Bidve, an Indian student, in Salford in an "awful attack" during the early hours of Monday.

Anuj Bidve, 23, was gunned down at point blank range as he walked with friends near their hotel in Salford, Greater Manchester.

Bidve and his friends were visiting Manchester on a short break over the Christmas holidays. The Lancaster University student was studying for a micro-electronics postgraduate qualification.

Bidve and his nine male and female friends were walking from their hotel towards the city center when the shooting took place.

Police said the students, who had not been drinking, became aware of two men on the other side of the street before the gunman - a white male in his 20s - walked across the road and engaged Bidve in a short conversation before shooting him at close range in the side of the head.

Bidve, from Pune, Maharashtra, collapsed and died at hospital a short time later. Police are not ruling out a racial motive for the killing.

They have pledged to leave "no stone unturned" in the hunt for Mr Bidve's killer.

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