MADURAI, July 30: The body of a cook, Samuthrapandi (40) was found with stab wounds near a school in Mugavoor, near Rajapalayam. Police suspect that he was murdered by an unidentified gang. This incident took place even as villages around Muthusamypuram remained tense following the murder of a DMK partyman.

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