2 GUARDS DIE AFTER ASSAULT BY EX-COLLEAGUES

NEWDELHI: Two guards deployed at an under-construction residential complex in outer Delhi’s Narela died on Sunday a day after their six former colleagues attacked them following a quarrel over some money, police said.

Deputy police commissioner Gaurav Sharma said the suspects were earlier sacked some weeks ago for reasons not yet clear. “About 8-10 days ago, they drank with the [two] guards and ...there was a quarrel over ₹1,000-1,500. The thrashing was in revenge for that,” he said, citing initial probe.

Sharma identified the victims by their first names as Amit, 22, and Sunil, 24, who were from Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat.

Sharma said the alleged attackers “wanted to beat them severely but not murder them”.