Nellikuzhi shooting: firearm used was probably procured from outside State

Friend of accused says they had travelled to Bihar to get the pistol

The country-made pistol with which a young dental student was shot dead at Nellikuzhi near Kothamangalam on Friday afternoon was probably procured from outside the State. The deceased, a 24-year-old BDS student from Kannur, doing her house surgency at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, Nellikuzhi, was shot down by the accused identified as Rakhil, 32, of Melur in Kannur at a house in the neighbourhood of the campus where the victim was staying as paying guest along with her friends.